Author: Nelson W. Keith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780877229063
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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In 1974, following a successful parliamentary election, Michael Manley and his People's National Party took Jamaica onto a self-proclaimed democratic socialist path. The project failed even prior to the subsequent electoral defeat of the PNP in 1980. This short-lived experiment has evoked considerable interest among development scholars. In this book, Nelson Keith and Novella Keith challenge current interpretations of Jamaican events and develop an alternative theoretical model: national popularism. Without dismissing the negative machinations by the United States, internal mismanagement, and a variety of other problems, the authors argue that the events in question speak less of a failure of socialism than of the fragility of a national class alliance that coalesced temporarily, amidst a crisis, around a "new" politics. While incorporating radical impulses "from below" as well as socialist policies, the new politics was rooted in liberal democratic strains that had evolved historically in ways that could accommodate these impulses. The Manley project can thus be better understood as the "management" of peripheral capitalism rather than a budding socialism, for which there were few supports in the society. In their rich historical analysis of race and class in Jamaica, the authors trace the emergence and demise of progressive "alternative paths to development" in the Third World. Their approach provides a model for class analysis that avoids over-reliance on economic factors, gives socio-historical elements their full due, and contributes to a reassessment of significant events in Jamaican history. The authors' conceptual model allows important insights to surface that are obscured in the discourse on "socialism and its failure." There was, in particular real cultural and ideological change in Jamaica in the 1970s, as the Rastafarian worldview made inroads into an erstwhile neo-colonial culture.
Author: Evelyne Huber Stephens
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400886074
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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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 make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Evelyne Huber Stephens
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691076973
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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The Description for this book, Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism, will be forthcoming.
Author: People's National Party (Jamaica)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Author: Michael Kaufman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Cheryl L. A. King
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 159244234X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Author: Cheryl L. A. King
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
ISBN: 9781498246385
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Cheryl King's study of Michael Manley's leadership of Jamaica in the 1970's is a well-written and informative study of one of Jamaica's most important post-independence political figures. Ms. King properly starts the study within the historical setting and limitations of Jamaica's colonial experience. The study then moves on to Manley's social democratic thinking and political principles, and his administration's less than successful efforts to work within the powerful chaotic international environment of the 1970's. Readers will encounter an engaging and wide ranging work of consequence. William B. Messmer, Ph.D., Drew University
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108587089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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This volume describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention. It covers cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. The first part discusses early egalitarian experiments and ideologies in Asia, Europe and the Islamic world, and then moves to early socialist thinkers in Britain, France, and Germany. The second part deals with the rise of the two main currents in socialist movements after 1848: anarchism in its multiple varieties, and Marxism. It also pays attention to organisational forms, including the International Working Men's Association (later called the First International); and it then follows the further development of anarchism and its 'proletarian' sibling, revolutionary syndicalism – its rise and decline from the 1870s until the 1940s on different continents. The volume concludes with critical essays on anarchist transnationalism and the recent revival of anarchism and syndicalism in several parts of the world.
Author: Sheri Berman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457594
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Political history in the industrial world has indeed ended, argues this pioneering study, but the winner has been social democracy - an ideology and political movement that has been as influential as it has been misunderstood. Berman looks at the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, Fascism and National Socialism by solving the central challenge of modern politics - reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. Bursting on to the scene in the interwar years, the social democratic model spread across Europe after the Second World War and formed the basis of the postwar settlement. This is a study of European social democracy that rewrites the intellectual and political history of the modern era while putting contemporary debates about globalization in their proper intellectual and historical context.
Author: Darrell E. Levi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820312217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Traces the life of the Jamaican journalist, labor activist, and politician, and looks at how he has used his terms as Prime Minister to work on behalf of the poor.
