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Government, Politics, Law : Samoa

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Guide To Law Online: Samoa  (http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/samoa.html)
The Guide to Law Online is an annotated compendium of sources accessible through the Internet. Links provide access to primary documents, legal commentary, and general government information about specific jurisdictions and topics.

HOME  (http://www.samoa.ws/govtsamoapress/)
The Samoa government website. Provides information on government corporations, minister portfolios, overseas mission, economy, the media and others.

Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute  (http://www.paclii.org)
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law to promote access to Pacific law. Its web site contains databases for sixteen different countries/territories/departments as well as full text versions of the Journal of South Pacific Law, and numerous treaties and conventions.

Rory Ewins's Pacific Islands Politics  (http://speedysnail.com/pacific/)
This web site contains links to Rory Erwin's writings on Pacific Islands politics. These include articles about the Fiji Coups, the Bougainville Conflict, the Silver Jubilee of King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, and the effect of tradition upon politics.

Samoa Elections  (http://www.electionworld.org/samoa.htm)
Part of the Electionworld.org web site, this page provides information about elections in Samoa.

State, Society and Governance in Melanesia  (http://rspas.anu.edu.au/melanesia/index.htm)
Run by the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at Australian National University, this project encourages scholarship and dialogue on political science in Melanesia. The project emphasizes Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji but also includes Papua/Irian Jaya and Timor in the culturally related region to the west and Pacific Islands countries to the east and north. Its web site contains information about its staff, publications, conferences and seminars, as well as full text documents of papers on politics within the region.

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