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We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea

Ritchie, Jonathan 2009, We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea, South Pacific journal of philosophy and culture, vol. 10, 2008-2009, pp. 77-92.


Title We need one district government to be set up to replace other district governments : the beginnings of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea
Author(s) Ritchie, Jonathan
Journal name South Pacific journal of philosophy and culture
Volume number 10
Season 2008-2009
Start page 77
End page 92
Total pages 16
Publisher University of Papua New Guinea Press
Place of publication Port Moresby, PNG
Publication date 2009-01-01
ISSN 1028-7833
Keyword(s) Pacific
history
social sciences
philosophy
cultural studies
Summary Decentralisation, provincial government, and regional autonomy continue as influential factors in Papua New Guinea’s political economy.  The role played in creating PNG’s provincial government system by separatist movements in East New Britain, Bougainville and elsewhere is acknowledged.  However, as the Constitutional Planning Committee (CPC) discovered during its program of consultations with the Papua New Guinean people from 1972 to 1974, there was a strong groundswell around the country for district-level governments.  This article investigates how the CPC stimulated discussion of this issue through its own activities, and how the people in their discussion groups responded to the CPC’s ‘Discussion Paper on Relations Between the Central Government and Other Levels of Government’.
Language eng
Field of Research 160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 940203 Political Systems
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
ERA Research output type C Journal article
HERDC collection year 2009
Related work DU:30025788
Copyright notice ©2009, South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045463

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