5. The Second Term: The Rise and Fall of the Left Alternative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables xii
4. Preface and Acknowledgements xiv
5. Abbreviations xviii
6. 1. Democratic Socialism: An Alternative Path of Development? 1
7. 2. State, Party and Society in a Post-Colonial Plantation-Mineral Enclave Economy 10
8. 3. The PNP's First Term: Tasks at the Outset and Populist Politics in the First Years 1972–74 60
9. 4. The First Term: Ideological Definition and Social Polarization 1974–6 104
10. 5. The Second Term: The Rise and Fall of the Left Alternative 148
11. 6. The Second Term: The Struggle with the IMF 199
12. 7. Seaga's Return to Dependent Capitalism 251
13. 8. Jamaica's Democratic Socialist Path: An Evaluation 270
14. 9. Lessons of the Manley Government: Democratic Socialism as an Alternative Development Path 320
15. Notes 346
16. Appendix 1: Tables 376
17. Appendix 2: Interview Data 399
18. Appendix 3: Reading and Coding of Newspaper Reports 401
19. Appendix 4: Jamaican Elite: 1974 and 1982 403
20. References 407
21. Index 418