Gaming for 'Good Governance' and the Democratic Ideal: From Universalist Rhetoric to Pacific Realities Seen Through a Fijian Microscope

Australian International Law Journal, 2006

21 Pages Posted: 27 Feb 2010

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James Duncan Stratford

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto

University of Manchester

Date Written: 2006

Abstract

This Article canvasses the international rubric and dynamic that informs the democracy and good governance crusade before moving the discussion to a regional setting targeting Pacific Island Countries with Fiji as a case study. It seeks to argue that democratic experimentalism, not the so-called “McDonaldization” (globalization as homogenization) of the world, is important. This is based on the premise that “McDonaldization” minimizes the complex way in which the local interacts with the international. The efficacy of democratic experimentalism is that it acknowledges that rights are not based on first principles, but that, they are inevitably socially constructed and historically contingent, and thus closely connected with both individual and group identity.

Keywords: Democracy, Fiji, Good governance, Coup, Self-determination

Suggested Citation

Stratford, James Duncan and Maogoto, Jackson Nyamuya, Gaming for 'Good Governance' and the Democratic Ideal: From Universalist Rhetoric to Pacific Realities Seen Through a Fijian Microscope (2006). Australian International Law Journal, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1559926

James Duncan Stratford

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto (Contact Author)

University of Manchester ( email )

Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, M139PL
United Kingdom

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