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Democracy by Default : Dependency and Clientelism in Jamaica / Carlene J. Edie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555872250
  • 9781685852399
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Nexus of Clientelism and Dependency: Toward a New Paradigm -- 2 Decolonization and the Emergence of a Clientelist Postcolonial State, 1944-1962 -- 3 Party Politics and Internal Clientelism -- 4 Middle Class Domination, External Dependency, and Internal Clientelism, 1962-1972 -- 5 The Manley Period: Democratic Socialism, Ideology, and Dual Clientelism, 1972-1980 -- 6 The Seaga Period: Liberal Capitalism, the Dependency Crisis, and the Persistence of Dual Clientelism, 1980-1989 -- 7 The 1989 PNP Victory and the Future of the State-Centered Patronage System -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Edie analyzes the interface between the external ties of dependency and internal democratic processes, arguing that Jamaica's sociopolitical order exists not because of a political culture committed to liberal democracy, but because of the state's ability to obtain and strategically dispense resources obtained from outside resources.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Nexus of Clientelism and Dependency: Toward a New Paradigm -- 2 Decolonization and the Emergence of a Clientelist Postcolonial State, 1944-1962 -- 3 Party Politics and Internal Clientelism -- 4 Middle Class Domination, External Dependency, and Internal Clientelism, 1962-1972 -- 5 The Manley Period: Democratic Socialism, Ideology, and Dual Clientelism, 1972-1980 -- 6 The Seaga Period: Liberal Capitalism, the Dependency Crisis, and the Persistence of Dual Clientelism, 1980-1989 -- 7 The 1989 PNP Victory and the Future of the State-Centered Patronage System -- Bibliography -- Index

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Edie analyzes the interface between the external ties of dependency and internal democratic processes, arguing that Jamaica's sociopolitical order exists not because of a political culture committed to liberal democracy, but because of the state's ability to obtain and strategically dispense resources obtained from outside resources.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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