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Author Premdas, Ralph R.

Title Ethnic conflict and development : the case of Guyana / Ralph R. Premdas
Published Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Avebury, [1995]
©1995

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Description xi, 205 pages ; 23 cm
Series Research in ethnic relations series
Research in ethnic relations series.
Contents Introduction: Ethnicity and Development -- Pt. I. The Guyana Case. I. The Making of a Multi-Ethnic State. II. The Structuring of Communal Identities. III. The Fateful Fall into the Spiral of Ethnic Politics: The Role of Party Organisation. IV. The Fateful Fall into the Spiral of Ethnic Politics: The Role of Elections and Political Campaigns. V. The Fateful Fall into the Spiral of Ethnic Politics: The Role of Voluntary Associations and Pressure Groups. VI. Ethnic Conflict Explodes into Civil War. VII. Ethnic Domination, Rigged Elections and Communal Repression. VIII. From Ethnic Domination to Elite Cross-Communal Domination. IX. Post-Script: The Elections of 1992 and a Change of Regime -- Pt. II. Ethnicity and Development. X. The Political, Socio-Cultural and Psychological Dimensions. XI. The Economic Dimension -- XII. Conclusion: Diagnosis and Prescription
Notes This book forms part of a wider research project sponsored by UNRISD
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205)
Subject Ethnicity -- Economic aspects -- Guyana.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Guyana.
Race relations -- Economic aspects -- Guyana.
Race relations -- Political aspects -- Guyana.
SUBJECT Guiana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057709 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
Guyana -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058011
Guyana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061018 -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005646
Guyana -- Politics and government -- 1966- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058022
Guyana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061018 -- Race relations -- Economic aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007553
Guyana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061018 -- Race relations -- Political aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007554
Guyana http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061018 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
Author United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
LC no. 95078512
ISBN 1856289958