Negotiating Claims

<p>Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? In this book Scholtz explores why a government would choose to implement a negotiation policy where it commits itself to a long-run strategy of negotiation over a number of claims and over a significant course of time. </p><p>Through an examination strongly grounded in archival research of post-World War Two government decision-making in four established democracies - Australia Canada New Zealand and the United States - Scholtz argues that negotiation policies emerge when indigenous people mobilize politically prior to significant judicial determinations on land rights and not after judicial change alone. <em>Negotiating Claims</em> links collective action and judicial change to explain the emergence of new policy institutions.</p>