| Description |
xvi, 296 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
11. Cuba: Unchanging Change - The Boundaries of Democracy / Carollee Bengelsdorf -- 12. Haiti: Prospects for Democracy / Kenneth I. Boodhoo -- 13. Democratization and Foreign Intervention: Applying the Lessons of Grenada to Panama and Nicaragua / Pedro A. Noguera -- 14. Problems and Prospects for the Survival of Liberal Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean / Selwyn Ryan -- 15. Parties and Electoral Competition in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1944-1991: Challenges to Democratic Theory / Patrick Emmanuel |
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Introduction / Carlene J. Edie -- 1. Democracy and Middle-Class Domination in the Anglophone Caribbean / Percy C. Hintzen -- 2. Jamaica: Clientelism, Dependency, and Democratic Stability / Carlene J. Edie -- 3. Guyana: Ethnic Politics and the Erosion of Human Rights and Democratic Governance / Ralph R. Premdas -- 4. Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Construction of Racial Identity / Percy C. Hintzen -- 5. Barbados: Democracy at the Crossroads / Neville Duncan -- 6. Grenada: From Parliamentary Rule to People's Power / Dessima Williams -- 7. Belize: Challenges to Democracy / Alma H. Young -- 8. Suriname: The Politics of Transition from Authoritarianism to Democracy, 1988-1992 / Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg -- 9. Dominican Republic: Electoralism, Pacts, and Clientelism in the Making of a Democratic Regime / Rosario Espinal -- 10. Puerto Rico: Problems of Democracy and Decolonization in the Late Twentieth Century / Carmen Gautier-Mayoral |
| Analysis |
Caribbean region |
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Democracy History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-285) and index |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Caribbean Area.
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Representative government and representation -- Caribbean Area.
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020290
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| Author |
Edie, Carlene J.
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| LC no. |
93005397 |
| ISBN |
0275945952 (alk. paper) |
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