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This edited collection provides a comparative treatment of democratic development in the Caribbean. Caribbean nations with British, French, Hispanic, Dutch, and American political traditions are examined. The volume pulls together common themes that illuminate the character of the post-colonial state in both its authoritarian and democratic forms. It examines the nature of and reasons for the survival of competitive parliamentary institutions on the one hand, and reasons for state decay and malfunction on the other. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars and policy makers involved with comparative politics, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and sociology.

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• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Democracy and Middle Class Domination in the Anglophone Caribbean
• Jamaica: Clientelism, Dependency, and Democratic Stability
• Ethnic Politics and the Erosion of Human Rights and Democratic Governance
• Trinidad and Tobago: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Construction of Racial Identity
• Barbados: Democracy at the Crossroads
• From Parliamentary Rule to People's Power
• Challenges to Democracy
• The Politics of Transition From Authoritarianism to Democracy, 1988-1991
• Dominican Republic: Electoralism, Pacts, and Clientelism in the Making of a Democratic Regime
• Puerto Rico: Problems of Democracy and Decolonization in the Late Twentieth Century
• Cuba: Unchanging Change: The Boundaries of Democracy
• Prospects for Democracy
• Democratization and Foreign Intervention
• Applying the Lessons of Grenada to Nicaragua and Panama
• Noguera Problems and Prospects for the Survival of Liberal
• Democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean
• Parties and Electoral Competition in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1944-1991
• Appendix
• Tables
• Bibliography
• Index

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CHOICE Review

What makes democracy possible and what factors sustain or inhibit it in the Caribbean Basin is the focus of Edie's interesting and provocative work. By and large, the editor has selected a variety of essays which are thoughtful, up to date, and of aid to those seeking patterns of polyarchic politics in the area. Edie's own chapter on Jamaica is enlightening, as are several others such as Alma Young's piece on Belize and Nelville Duncan's perceptive treatment of Barbados. Selwyn Ryan and Patrick Emmanuel also provide useful end pieces which seek to examine the future prospects for the survival of liberal democracy in the future. Some readers may have a difficult time with the inclusion of Cuba and its "boundaries of democracy" as well as with the nettlesome problem of how to categorize such dependencies as Puerto Rico, which do not seem to want to be independent in the normal sense of that word. Nevertheless, those interested in an updated, stimulating overview of recent politics in the Caribbean will find this a useful purchase and its many varied insights well worth considering. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate. C. Potholm II; Bowdoin College

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CARLENE J. EDIE is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Among her earlier publications is Democracy by Default: Dependency and Clientelism in Jamaica .