Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin: Constructing a Theory to Combat Corruption by Michael W. Collier

Author:Michael W. Collier [Collier, Michael W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Political Science, Political Process, American Government, State, General
ISBN: 9781135871864
Google: 3fxSAQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 18703866
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Democracy in Jamaica was in a crisis in the 1970s as the two major political parties, the Jamaica Labor Party and the People's National Party, confronted each other from sharply opposed ideological positions. [The PNP was social-democratic, the JLP more liberal-conservative.] Political violence intensified to unprecedented levels and the contest for power assumed a winner-take-all situation that shattered the very foundation of the inter-party consensus, which had been built up during the 1950s and 1960s. For the first time in the history of party competition in the country, the governing PNP took it upon itself to use the full power of a State of Emergency to paralyze the campaign efforts of the opposition by locking up the key members of its leadership and by publicly accusing the party of consorting with enemy forces and of plotting subversion (Stone 1989, i).

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