My analysis
As part of my PhD and other research I have published the following analysis of electoral politics in Solomon Islands.
Advice to Solomon Islanders Thinking of Standing in Elections
Advice to Solomon Islanders Thinking of Standing in Elections
Some practical advice for people thinking of standing in elections in Solomons.
Briefing Notes
Two short introductory notes to elections and electoral politics in Solomon Islands
Local Voting in Solomon Islands
Electoral Quality in Solomon Islands
Short Book of Election Results and Analysis
Solomon Islands Election Results 1967-2010.
A book of election results which contains analysis of key features of results and key trends.
Papers
Wood, T (2018) The clientelism trap in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, and its impact on aid policy. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 5(3), 481-494. [this article is free to all to read]
Wood, Terence. 2016. Is Culture the Cause? Choices, Expectations, and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Pacific Affairs, 89(1), 31-52. [subscription required – researchers from Solomon Islands, if you are struggling to access this article email me and I will explain possible ways you can get access.]
Aiding Women Candidates in Solomon Islands: Suggestions for Development Policy – Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 531–543
This paper discusses challenges faced by women candidates and looks at what aid donors can do to increase numbers of women MPs. (Unrestricted free access to the paper is here.)
Wood, Terence. 2015. The Three Political Economies of Electoral Quality in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper, 2015(43).
The 2014 parliamentary elections in Solomon Islands – Electoral Studies (vol. 39, September 2015)
This paper discusses the 2014 elections in Solomon Islands, looking at what changed in the elections and what didn’t. It also offers some explanations of the causes of an election that was both atypical and typical at the same time.
[Solomon Island-based researchers, if you are having trouble making the above link work please contact me.]
Why Can’t Women Win? Impediments to Female Electoral Success in Solomon Islands
A working paper looking at the challenges faced by women candidates in Solomon Islands elections. The published journal article from it is here.
Understanding Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands
A general overview of the central dynamics of electoral politics in Solomon Islands.
Paper on the 2019 elections in Solomons. In the Journal of Pacific Studies.
Blog Posts
I’ve written a number of blog posts for the Development Policy Centre’s blog on Solomon Islands politics. Here are a few examples. You can find more at the blog.
Elections, and the state Solomon Islands is in
Devil’s Night! What goes right in Solomon Islands Elections, and what doesn’t
The 2014 Election in Solomon Islands: did anything change, will anything change?
Poor Political Governance in Solomon Islands: what can donors do?
Aiding women candidates in Solomon Islands
My PhD
My PhD dissertation is a more theoretical document that aims to tie voting in Solomon Islands to theories of ethnic voting from political science. You can download it here.
If you are not a political scientist you will almost certainly find this one page summary of my PhD more useful.
Also, this short document provides some answers to some questions you (especially Solomon Islanders) may have about electoral politics in Solomon Islands.
Very good Analysis “Having more women MPs elected in Pacific island
countries is desirable for a range of reasons. Gender equity alone provides a compelling case, while available evidence from elsewhere in the world suggests more women in parliament will also deliver broader development benefits. Cross-country work shows countries with more
women MPs tend to experience less corruption (Dollar et al. 2001). Increases in numbers of women MPs appear to lead to subsequent improvements in economic performance (Jayasuriya and Burke 2012). And countries with more women MPs also devote, on average, more government spending to health and education (Knack and Sanyal 2000)” Thanks