This article discusses the Samoan constitutional system and its distinctive ‘mix’ of traditional and modern democracy. On the one hand, the Constitution endorses a series of universal values and the division of power. On the other hand, the chief of the family, called the Matai, is chosen by...

What is national identity? What is its relation with constitutional democracy? The post Westphalian principles of national sovereignty and state unity, Bauman argues, are challenged internally by regionalism and externally by cosmopolitanism. The dilemma is whether we can reconcile shifting...