[PDF] Ethno Politics And Power Sharing In Guyana eBook

Author : David Hinds
Publisher : New Academia Publishing, LLC
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0982806108

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Hinds presents a useful guide at large for understanding the problem of governance, democracy, and society in ethnically divided countries and how to create a framework aimed at solving the problem.

Author : Ralph R. Premdas
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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This work offers empirical evidence and theoretical insights into the behaviour of the ethnic factor in the developmental experience on one Third World country, Guyana. The role of pressure groups, ethnic domination and rigged ballot boxes are some of the issues explored.

Author : S. Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137012129

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In small plural societies, cultural differences can be exaggerated, exploited and intensified during political contests. The survival of these societies as democracies - or even at all - hangs in the balance.

Author : Madan M. Gopal
Publisher : San Francisco : Mellen Research University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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This work discusses class- and ethnic-based explanations of troubled race relations in Guyana. It examines the influence of class and ethnicity on political affiliation, specifically focusing on the development of political consciousness in adolescents of Guyana. It uses oblique strategy and local conversational mode to maximize informants' involvement and avoids subordinating their perspective on their society's problems.

Author : Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781878379566

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Can power sharing prevent violent ethnic conflict? And if so, how can the international community best promote that outcome? In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, Sisk highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitioners alike, and the instances where power-sharing experiments have succeeded and where they have failed. Finally, he offers some guidance to policymakers as they ponder power-sharing arrangements.

Author : Henry Jeffrey
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781507550687

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Guyanese politics has taken many an unfortunate turn over the last sixty years. The attempt by the People's Progressive Party (PPP) to establish political dominance is the most recent and perhaps the most unfortunate given the expectations that brought that party to office, and will hopefully be the last if the nation succeeds in devising new methods of managing its affairs. I began contributing weekly articles to the Stabroek News in 2011, and the vast majority of them have been directed towards exploring where Guyana is politically and what kinds of mechanisms will best create the kind of ethnic unity that will take us forward. I hope that it will provide the reader with an appreciation of an important dimension of the nature of the political problem in Guyana. I have decided to present this compilation because there is now a widespread acceptance that radical change is necessary. Indeed, the major opposition political parties, which at the time of writing this had a slim majority in Parliament before it was prorogued, have committed themselves to making necessary constitutional changes, and although unsystematic thus far, a national discourse has began. Political/ethnic dominance has not historically been an aim of the PPP, and why and how the party took this course, what it means, its consequences for life in Guyana and possible solutions to the problem are the major concerns of this compilation. I hope it will contribute to the current debate and thus make a small contribution to Guyana finally taking a course that will allow it to fulfill its vast potential.

Author : Brackette F. Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1991-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822311195

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Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their quest for recognition as a “nation” reproduce ethnic chauvinism, racial stereotyping, and religious bigotry. By placing her ethnographic study in a broader historical context, the author develops a theoretical understanding of the relations among various dimensions of personal identity in the process of nation building.