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Participatory Democracy - The Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica (Paperback)
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Participatory Democracy - The Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica (Paperback)
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In Participatory Democracy: The Case of Parish Development
Committees in Jamaica, Marc Anthony Thomas expands the existing
knowledge on participatory democracy. Parish development committees
were established as a means for Jamaicans to inform government
policy, and Thomas explores the extent to which supportive
institutional, infrastructural and superstructural conditions allow
for robust implementation of this democratization initiative. His
analysis is bolstered by an appreciation of the emancipatory
politics employed by the country's general population since slavery
not only to survive oppression, but also to influence the nation's
political agenda. Riots during slavery and in the present day, for
example, have offered citizens an avenue towards
self-determination. The democratization initiative symbolized by
parish development committees promotes inclusiveness yet is led
predominantly by older, educated middle-class individuals with
talents and capacities garnered from several years of experience in
various fields. Thomas argues that the opportunity cost of a more
inclusive order explains this fact, in that Jamaica's finite
resources mean there is limited space for a learning curve and the
cash-strapped committees have only been able to survive when their
members could help to defray the cost of their operations. By
observing more than one hundred hours of parish development
committee activities and interviewing sixty key informants and four
focus groups, Thomas finds that the emergence, survival and
thriving of parish development committees in Jamaica is determined
largely by the extent to which emancipatory political tactics are
successfully applied by committee stakeholders to combat a number
of continuing challenges. His analysis provides a micro-scale view
of the interaction of factors that have shaped the power and
possibility of Jamaica's democratization initiative.
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