Democratic Socialism in Jamaica : : The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism / / John D. Stephens, Evelyne Huber Stephens.

The work includes a detailed historical account of the Manley years, focusing on shifting relations between contending social forces and on the interaction between economics and politics.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again mak...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1986
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5145
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Physical Description:1 online resource (444 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Democratic Socialism: An Alternative Path of Development?
  • 2. State, Party and Society in a Post-Colonial Plantation-Mineral Enclave Economy
  • 3. The PNP's First Term: Tasks at the Outset and Populist Politics in the First Years 1972-74
  • 4. The First Term: Ideological Definition and Social Polarization 1974-6
  • 5. The Second Term: The Rise and Fall of the Left Alternative
  • 6. The Second Term: The Struggle with the IMF
  • 7. Seaga's Return to Dependent Capitalism
  • 8. Jamaica's Democratic Socialist Path: An Evaluation
  • 9. Lessons of the Manley Government: Democratic Socialism as an Alternative Development Path
  • Notes
  • Appendix 1: Tables
  • Appendix 2: Interview Data
  • Appendix 3: Reading and Coding of Newspaper Reports
  • Appendix 4: Jamaican Elite: 1974 and 1982
  • References
  • Index