The Costs of Regime Survival - Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad (Paperback, New ed)

This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Given the structure of political and economic organization typical of these countries, and of the web of international relations of which they are a part, political survival can very often depend on a leader's willingness to serve the interests of a small, but politically strategic minority. In both Guyana and Trinidad post-independence leaders made politically expedient decisions that foreclosed policy choices consistent with the satisfaction of collective needs. As a result both countries experienced a series of political and economic crises. This in-depth comparative study of Guyana and Trinidad will be of interest to all scholars, students and policy-makers concerned with aspects of political and economic development in the Third World.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	1989
Authors:	Percy C. Hintzen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	252
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-03014-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	0-521-03014-5
Barcode:	9780521030144

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