The hidden dimension to political instability: Insights from ministerial durations in Papua New Guinea from 1972 to 2017

Henry Ivarature

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 2022, vol. 9, issue 2, 134-146

Abstract: This article introduces a dataset on ministerial tenure in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The dataset, which spans from 1972 to 2017 and covers 15 governments and 321 ministers, is used to study ministerial duration and stability. To do this, two measures of ministerial duration and two stability indicators have been developed. These measures show that ministerial instability is high in PNG but it has not become worse over time. They also show, however, that instability has varied considerably between governments. Drawing on PNGʼs political history, this article provides a discussion of this variation by examining the circumstances of particular governments.

Date: 2022
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