This comparative study of two republics examines the conditions that determine regime survival in less developed countries. The author looks at the functioning of political élites and the strategies employed, such as ethnic mobilization, patronage and coercion, to gain and maintain control of the state. He argues that political and economic development can only be adequately advanced by the resolution of the conflict between regime survival and the satisfaction of collective needs. If these collective needs are met, equitable mass participation in the domestic political process must be guaranteed.
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This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Political survival can very often depend on a leader's willingness to serve the interests of a small, but politically strategic minority. In both Guyana and Trinidad, post-independence leaders made politically expedient decisions resulting in a series of political and economic crises.
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There is a most serious dilemma facing political leaders engaged in the process of formulating and implementing national policy in less developed countries (LDCs). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
generalized patronage, coercive retaliation, mobilizing idiom, coercive arsenal, state bureaucratic sector, racial patronage, endemic economic crisis, generalized legitimacy, reputational leaders, declared ideological position, accumulative interests, metropolitan actors, racial mobilization, regime survival, foreign exchange surpluses, powerful international actors, racial support, patronage claims, social security functions, state bureaucratic apparatus, colored middle class, state corporate sector, clientelistic ties, ideological congruence, racial appeal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Indian, Prime Minister, United States, Caribbean Contact, Budget Speech, British Guiana, West Indian, United Force, Executive President, Forbes Burnham, Guyana Chronicle, Cheddi Jagan, Commission of Inquiry, Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian, Peoples Progressive Party, Second World War, State of Emergency, Anglophone Caribbean, British Parliament, Legislative Council, Miami Herald, Minister of Finance, Unemployment Levy, British West Indies New!
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There is a most serious dilemma facing political leaders engaged in the process of formulating and implementing national policy in less developed countries (LDCs). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
generalized patronage, coercive retaliation, mobilizing idiom, coercive arsenal, state bureaucratic sector, racial patronage, endemic economic crisis, generalized legitimacy, reputational leaders, declared ideological position, accumulative interests, metropolitan actors, racial mobilization, regime survival, foreign exchange surpluses, powerful international actors, racial support, patronage claims, social security functions, state bureaucratic apparatus, colored middle class, state corporate sector, clientelistic ties, ideological congruence, racial appeal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Indian, Prime Minister, United States, Caribbean Contact, Budget Speech, British Guiana, West Indian, United Force, Executive President, Forbes Burnham, Guyana Chronicle, Cheddi Jagan, Commission of Inquiry, Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian, Peoples Progressive Party, Second World War, State of Emergency, Anglophone Caribbean, British Parliament, Legislative Council, Miami Herald, Minister of Finance, Unemployment Levy, British West Indies New!
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- The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment by Kenneth P. Jameson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Second World War (What Families Were Like) by Fiona Reynoldson on page 3, and page 30
- Political Development and Social Change by Jason Leonard Finkle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Politics and Public Policy in Kenya and Tanzania by Joel D. Barkan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Economic Growth by W. W. Rostow in Back Matter
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- The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago by Stephen Stuempfle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram: A Community without Shared Values (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) by Lewis F. Carter in Back Matter
- Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana (Routledge Studies in Development and Society) by Linda Peake in Back Matter
- The Shape of Culture: A Study of Contemporary Cultural Patterns in the United States (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) by Judith R. Blau in Back Matter
- Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Helen Myers in Back Matter
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