The Costs of Regime Survival : Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad (Hardcover)

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.