Democracy Delayed

Informationen zum Autor Juan J. López is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of Illinois at Chicago and a research associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies in the School of International Studies of the University of Miami. Klappentext With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts and international relations scholars expected communist Cuba to undergo transitions to democracy and to markets as had the Eastern European nations of the former Soviet bloc. But more than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Castro remains in power, with no sign that the Cuban government or economy is moving toward liberalization. In Democracy Delayed, political scientist Juan Lpez offers a searching and detailed analysis of the factors behind Cuba's failure to liberalize.Lpez begins by comparing the political systems of three Eastern European states--the former German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, and Romania -- with that of Cuba, in order to identify the differences that have allowed Castro to maintain his hold over the government and the economy. Lpez also shows the various conditions promoting change, including the development of civil society groups in Cuba, and discusses why some U.S. policies help the possibility of democratization in Cuba while others hinder it. While the Catholic Church in Poland and the Protestant Church in East Germany fostered change, the Catholic Church in Cuba has not taken a defiant stance against authoritarianism but seems instead to be biding its time until Castro is out of the picture. In conclusion, Lpez argues that a political transition in Cuba is possible even under the government of Fidel Castro. Some necessary conditions have been missing, but it is possible that U.S. policies could lay the groundwork for democratic charge. Zusammenfassung policies could lay the groundwork for democratic charge.

Product details

• Authors: Juan J. Lopez, Juan J. (University of Illinois at Chicago) Lopez, Juan J López, Juan J. López
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2002
• EAN: 9780801870460
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7046-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Cuba, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Marxism & Communism, Political structure and processes