Commerce and Confusion: Reporting the 2018 Fiji Election Results

MacWilliam, Scott

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Commerce and Confusion: Reporting the 2018 Fiji Election Results

Date

2018

Authors

MacWilliam, Scott

Publisher

Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University

Abstract

Elections provide extensive commercial opportunities. Campaign material including banners; articles of clothing; advertising in newspapers and on television, radio and electronic media; transportation and providing food at rallies — all these open spaces for firms and individuals to benefit commercially from what have become the signal events of capitalist democracy.