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Gadbois, George Harold Jr
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- Emeritus Professor George Gadbois
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1936 -
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George H Gadbois (Jr) was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1936. He received his BA from Marietta College, Ohio, USA and his PhD from Duke University at Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington USA where he was a member of the Political Science Department from 1966 until his retirement in 1991.
For over half a century his research interest was comparative politics and judicial behaviour in South Asia and under a Fulbright research fellowships he conducted research in Papua New Guinea and India. His research findings on the Supreme Court of India appeared in various journals and publications since the 1960s. He is the author of the book ‘Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989’, which essays the background and life of the first ninety three judges who served the Supreme Court from 1950 to 1989. He has also authored many other articles and book chapters dealing with Indian courts, judges, judicial behaviour and judicial policy-making, dating back to 1963.
In late 1974 he studied the political situation in Papua New Guinea in the years leading up to Independence in 1975. He wrote two papers, ‘Elections in Papua New Guinea: a search for a framework of analysis’ (1977), and ‘The representative roles and accountability of legislators in Papua New Guinea’ (1978) in which he drew on the research he conducted in Papua New Guinea during the second half of 1974. The subject of his research involved 73 backbenchers of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. They were interviewed using questions contained in the Interview Schedule for Legislators.
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South Asia; Papua New Guinea; USA
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Created by Christine Bryan on 8 May 2014
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- Papuan Language
- Tok Pisin
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Kentucky University website http://alumni-friends.as.uky.edu/polisci-emeritus
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PMB): http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/reels/manuscripts/PMB1372.PDF