Dr Ronald May
M.Ec (Syd.) D.Phil (Oxon)
Emeritus Fellow
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
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6231 5114
Areas of expertise
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific 160606
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Race And Ethnic Relations 160803
Publications
- May, R 2019, 'Papua New Guinea in 2018: Prime Minister O'Neill Survives a Challenging Year', Asian Survey, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 198-203.
- May, R 2017, 'Papua New Guinea in 2016: Growing Civil Frustration', Asian Survey, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 194-198pp.
- May, R 2017, 'Papua New Guinea: countdown to the 2017 election [NO DOCUMENTATION]'.
- May, R 2017, Papua New Guinea.
- May, R 2017, Handshakes hide PNG-Australia tension - 20 MAR 2017, pp. 1-4pp.
- May, R 2016, 'Papua New Guinea in 2015 A Year of Complexities', Asian Survey, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 123-128.
- May, R 2015, 'Presentation - The Art of the Sepik River: A brief history of the Sepik - 7 AUG 2015'.
- May, R 2015, 'Papua New Guinea at 40 Years' documentary.
- May, R 2015, 'A Brief History of the Sepik', Oceanic Art Society Journal, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 3pp.
- May, R & Haley, N 2014, 'The Military in Papua New Guinea: A 'Culture of Instability' But No Coup', Security Challenges, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 53-70.
- Eves, R, Haley, N, May, R et al 2014, 'Purging Parliament: A New Christian Politics in Papua New Guinea?', State Society and Governance in Melanesia Discussion Paper 2014/1.
- May, R 2013, 'The strategic outlook for Papua New Guinea', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute of Australia, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 17-19.
- May, R 2013, 'The Philippines: The ongoing saga of Moro separatism', in Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J Regan (ed.), Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why some subside and others don't, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 221-234.
- May, R 2013, 'Papua New Guinea: From Coup to Reconciliation', Journal of Democracy, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 165-171.
- May, R, Matbob, P & Papoutsaki, E 2013, 'New Guinea', in Godfrey Baldacchino (ed.), The Political Economy of Divided Islands: Unified Geographies, Multiple Polities, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, pp. 34-57pp..
- May, R 2013, 'From the New Guinea Research Unit to The National Research Institute', in Linda Crowl, Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe & Roderick Dixon (ed.), Ron Crocombe: E Toa! Pacific Writings To Celebrate His Life And Work, USP Press, Suva, Fiji, pp. 303-311.
- May, R, Wheen, K & Haley, N 2013, 'Assessing the Shift to Limited Preferential Voting', in R J May, Ray Anere, Nicole Haley and Katherine Wheen (ed.), Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea, ANU Press, Canberra Australia, pp. 193-205.
- May, R, Anere, R, Haley, N et al., eds, 2013, Election 2007: the Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea, ANU Press, Canberra Australia.
- May, R, Anere, R, Haley, N et al., eds, 2013, Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia.
- May, R 2012, Papua New Guinea goes to the polls, pp. 3pp.
- May, R 2012, 'Papua New Guinea: Issues of External and Internal Security', Security Challenges, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 47-60.
- May, R 2012, 'History, demography and factionalism; obstacles to conflict resolution through autonomy in the Southern Philippines', in Michelle Ann Miller (ed.), Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 278-295.
- May, R 2012, Papua New Guinea: Will an Election Restore the Country's 'Disorderly Democracy'?, pp. online.
- May, R 2012, The bumpy road to government: Papua New Guinea's election, pp. online.
- May, R & Anere, R 2011, 'Background to the 2007 Election: Political Developments', in R J May, Ray Anere, Nicole Haley and Katherine Wheen (ed.), Election 2007: The Shift to Limited Preferential Voting in Papua New Guinea, ANU Press, Canberra Australia, pp. 9-32.
- Dinnen, S, Regan, A & Hegarty, D 2004, Rebuilding State and Nation in Solomon Islands: Policy Options for the Regional Assistance Mission, ANU.
- May, R & Laki, J 2009, 'Policy Making in Defence', in R J May (ed.), Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 261-279.
- May, R, ed., 2009, Policy Making and Implementation Studies from Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- May, R 2009, 'Introduction (Policy making and implementation)', in R J May (ed.), Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-8.
- May, R 2009, 'Public Sector Reform Since 2001', in R J May (ed.), Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 27-38.
- May, R 2009, 'Policy Making on Decentralization', in R J May (ed.), Policy Making and Implementation: Studies from Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 203-2323.
- May, R 2009, 'Papua New Guinea', in D J Sagar (ed.), Political Parties of the World (7th ed), John Harper Publishing, Great Britian, pp. 455-458.
- May, R 2007, 'Federallism versus autonomy in the Philippines', in Baogang He, Brian Galligan, Takashi Inoguchi (ed.), Federalism in Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 165-187.
- Haley, N & May, R 2007, 'Introduction: Roots of conflict in the Southern Highlands', in Nicole Haley & Ronald J. May (ed.), Conflict and resource development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-19.
- May, R 2007, 'The Changing Face of Indigenous Art in Papua New Guinea Some traditions are in decline, but new forms are thriving.', Sang Saeng, no. 20, pp. 12.15.
- Haley, N & May, R, eds, 2007, Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia.
- May, R 2007, 'Challenges to the State', in Dennis Shoesmith (ed.), The Crisis in Timor-Leste: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, pp. 3-11.
- May, R 2006, 'Political Parties in Papua New Guinea', in Roland Rich, Luke Hambly & Michael G.Morgan (ed.), Political Parties in the Pacific Islands, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 83-103.
- May, R 2006, 'Combating corruption: an afterword', in R J May and Binayak Ray (ed.), Corruption, Governance and Democracy in South Asia, Manosh Bagchi, Kolkata, pp. 163-175.
- May, R 2006, 'Political and Social Change: Not the Research School of Politics and Sociology.', in Brij Lal, Allison Ley (ed.), The Coombs: A House of Memories, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 159-167.
- May, R 2006, 'Northern Exposure: The New Guinea Research Unit', in Brij Lal, Allison Ley (ed.), The Coombs: A House of Memories, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 95-100.
- May, R & Ray, B, eds, 2006, Corruption, Governance and Democracy in South Asia, Manosh Bagchi, Kolkata.
- May, R 2006, 'The 'clan vote' in Papua New Guinea open electorates data from Angoram', Journal of Pacific Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 108-129.
- May, R 2006, 'Papua New Guinea: Disorderly democracy or dysfunctional state?', in Dennis Rumley, Vivia Forbes & Christopher Griffin (ed.), Australia's Arc of Instability, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 151-170.
- May, R 2005, 'Why is the Pacific not peaceful? examining internal conflicts in Melanesia', in Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Helene Bouvier, Glenn Smith, Roger Tol (ed.), Violent internal conflicts in Asia Pacific: Histories, Political Economies and policies, Yayasan Obor Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, pp. 120-133.
- May, R 2005, 'Preventing Conflict: Ethnicity and Inequality', in John Henderson & Greg Watson (ed.), Securing a Peaceful Pacific, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 275-280.
- May, R & Collier, C 2004, 'Philippines', in Bogdan Szajkowski (ed.), Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World (4th ed), John Harper Publishing, Great Britain, pp. 404-08.
- May, R 2004, 'Papua New Guinea', in Charles Morrison (ed.), Asia Pacific Security Outlook 2004, Japan Center for International Exchange, New York, pp. 147-152.
- May, R 2004, 'Malaysia-Philipines (Sabah)', in Peter Calvert (ed.), Border and Territorial Disputes of the World (4th ed), John Harper Publishing, London, UK, p. 232.
- May, R 2004, 'The challenge to democracy in Melanesia', in N N Vohra (ed.), India and Australasia: History, Culture and Society, Shipra Publications, New Delhi, pp. 241-269.
- Mathieson, D & May, R 2004, 'Introduction: The illusion of progress in Burma/Myanmar', in David Mathieson and R J May (ed.), The Illusion of Progress: The Political Economy of Reform in Burma/Myanmar, Crawford House Publishing, Adelaide, SA, pp. 1-16.
- May, R & Laki, J 2003, 'Papua New Guinea', in Charles Morrison (ed.), Asia Pacific Security Outlook 2003, Japan Center for International Exchange, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 121-128.
- May, R 2003, 'Weak states, collapsed, broken-backed states and kleptocracies: general concepts and Pacific realities', New Pacific Review, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 35-58.
- May, R, ed., 2003, Arc of Instability? Melanesia in the Early 2000s, University of Canterbury and ANU, New Zealand and Australia.
- May, R 2003, 'The military in Papua New Guinea: a culture of instability?', in R J May (ed.), Arc of Instability? Melanesia in the Early 2000s, University of Canterbury and ANU, New Zealand and Australia, pp. 1-8.
- May, R 2003, 'Ethnicity in the Philippines', in Colin Mackerras (ed.), Ethnicity in Asia, Routledge Curzon, London, UK, pp. 136-156.
- May, R 2003, 'Turbulence and reform in Papua New Guinea', Journal of Democracy, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 154-165.
- May, R 2003, 'Harmonizing linguistic diversity in Papua New Guinea', in Michael E Brown and Sumit Ganguly (ed.), Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. USA, pp. 291-318.
- May, R 2003, DISORDERLY DEMOCRACY: POLITICAL TURBULENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, ANU.
- May, R 2002, 'Elections in the Philippines, May 2001', Electoral Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 673-680.
- May, R 2002, 'Papua New Guinea', in Christopher A. McNally and Charles E. Morrison (ed.), Asia Pacific Security Outlook 2002, Japan Center for International Exchange, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 127-134.
- May, R, ed., 2002, Maintaining democracy: the 1997 elections in Papua New Guinea, Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
- May, R 2002, 'Election 1997: an overview', in R J May (ed.), Maintaining Democracy: the 1997 Elections in Papua New Guinea, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-14.
- May, R 2002, 'The East Sepik Electorates: the demise of Pangu', in R J May (ed.), Maintaining Democracy: the 1997 Elections in Papua New Guinea, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 149-160.
- May, R 2001, 'Papua New Guinea', in Christopher A. McNally and Charles E. Morrison (ed.), Asia Pacific Security Outlook 2001, Japan Center for International Exchange, New York, USA, pp. 124-131.
- May, R 2001, 'Muslim Mindanao: Four Years After the Peace Agreement', in Daljit Singh and Anthony Smith (ed.), Southeast Asian Affairs 2001, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, pp. 263-278.
- Regan, A & May, R 2001, 'Reassessing Australia's Role in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands', in James Cotton and John Ravenhill (ed.), The National Interest in a Global Era: Australia in World Affairs 1996-2000, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Australia, pp. 149-170.
- May, R 2001, State and Society in Papua New Guinea The First Twenty-Five Years, Crawford House Publishing, Adelaide.
