This paper reports the findings of a mixed methods study of electoral politics in Solomon Islands. In particular, it looks at Solomon Islands voters' propensity to vote for co-ethnic candidates in national elections. The paper provides a typology of existing theories of ethnic voting before...

This paper is an update of our previous research on NGO donations and support for ODA in Australia. It uses more recent and more accurate data, and we believe its findings to be improved. The paper reports on research in which electorate-level data about donations to Australian aid NGOs were...

District Services Improvement Program (DSIP) funds are constituency development grants which members of parliament in Papua New Guinea (PNG) exert considerable control over. Similar funds exist in a number of other countries, but on a per capita basis PNG’s funds are some of the highest...

In the first discussion paper in this two paper series, Filer and Wood (2021) derived two measures of human well-being from the 2000 national census and sought to establish the relative strength of their association with 12 geographical variables in a comparative study of the 85 partially rural...