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Comrades, Clients and Cousins - Colonialism, Socialism and Democratization in Sao Tome and Principe (Paperback)
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Comrades, Clients and Cousins - Colonialism, Socialism and Democratization in Sao Tome and Principe (Paperback)
Series: African Social Studies Series, 13
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Colonized in the late 15th century, Sao Tome and Principe were
ruled by Portugal for 500 years, one of the longest periods of
European domination in colonial history. In fact, during this
period the Portuguese colonized the islands twice. Both
colonizations were driven by the production of tropical cash crops;
however, they occurred under rather different circumstances. Its
long history as a plantation colony has made this African
archipelago in many aspects more akin to the small Caribbean
states. Since its decolonization in 1975 the small and impoverished
country has experienced two fundamental changes to its political
and economic system in a short period of 15 years. After embracing
socialism and a centralized economy at independence, in 1990 the
country introduced liberal democracy and a free-market economy.
This case study analyses the course of political and economic
changes in postcolonial Sao Tome and Principe. The central issue of
the book is to which extent institutional changes based on external
models altered local patterns of political culture and of doing
politics. In addition, it examines the outcome of the consecutive
economic policies and development approaches patterned on theses
models. This second edition has been completely revised and updated
for the period of 1998-2005, including the recent developments in
the country's emerging oil sector.
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