| Summary: | In this analysis of the interface between the external ties of dependency and internal democratic processes, the author argues that democratic party politics exist in Jamaica not because of a political culture committed to liberal democracy, but because of the state's capacity to obtain resources from friendly foreign governments and international financial agencies and to dispense them to strategic social classes. It is widely shared material interests rather than ideological propensities that accounted for the decisive electoral shifts of 1980 and 1989.
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