Costs of Regime Survival - Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination Control of State in Guyana

Zusammenfassung This comparative study of Guyana! and Trinidad and Tobago examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Regime survival and control of the post-colonial state; 2. Mobilization for control of the state in Guyana and Trinidad; 3. Maintaining control of the state: strategies for regime survival in Guyana and Trinidad; 4. Elite support and control of the state: race, ideology and clientelism; 5. Regime survival and state control of the economy; 6. The political and economic costs of regime survival; 7. Collective needs versus the demands of powerful actors in less developed countries; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Percy C. Hintzen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521030144
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03014-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: American Sociological Associat; American Sociological Associat
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education