Class Alliances and the Liberal Authoritarian State

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  • Class Alliances and the Liberal Authoritarian State Book Detail

  • Author : F. S. J. Ledgister
  • Release Date : 1998
  • Publisher : Africa World Press
  • Genre : Democracy
  • Pages : 226
  • ISBN 13 : 9780865435476
  • File Size : 60,60 MB
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Class Alliances and the Liberal Authoritarian State by F. S. J. Ledgister PDF Summary

Book Description: The political evolution of three former colonies into independence and beyond is studied via an examination of the existing literature and through interviews with journalists, scholars and politicians. These countries appear to uphold the conventional wisdom, since Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago have been continuously democratic since independence, while Surinam has not. It is clear from the author's research that the similarities in the political evolution of these countries far outweigh the differences. In particular, the British in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dutch in Surinam, developed similar state structures - simultaneously liberal and authoritarian. However, in two countries, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, the emergence of political parties was linked to labor protests, while this linkage, though not the protest, was absent in Surinam. Democratic politics in the former two countries turns out to rest on a two way alliance between the middle and lower classes, embedded in a paternalistic state structure inherited from the colonial period. In Surinam, the absence of this alliance rendered democracy more vulnerable. The author concludes that while the peoples of the Caribbean did not fight long struggles for independence, they have been able to preserve the least poisoned gift of the colonizer - democracy.

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