Society and Politics in the Caribbean

A study of the relationship between society and politics in the Caribbean, this book examines the importance of democracy to these subjects. It argues that despite structural differences, these ex-colonies gravitate toward democratic values and practices because of European colonization.

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Part 1 Independent parliamentary democracies: Jamaican society and the testing of democracy, Anthony Payne; society and electoral politics in Trinidad and Tobago, Colin Clarke; society and politics in Belize, O.Nigel Bolland; politics and society in the South-Eastern Caribbean, Tony Thorndike; Grenada - politics and society in a small state, Colin Clarke; between authoritarianism and crisis-prone democracy - the Dominican Republic after Trujillo, Rosario Espinal; politics and society in Venezuela, Biego Bautista Urbaneja. Part 2 Independent authoritarian regimes: society and politics in Haiti - the divorce between the nation and the state, Christian A.Girault; politics and society in Cuba, Roberto Espindola. Part 3 Territories under metropolitan control: political subordination and society in the French Antilles, Michel Giraud; society and voting behaviour in Puerto Rico, Juan M.Garcia-Passalacqua and Jorge Heine.