Elections and Democracy in the Caribbean

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science Pub Date : 2020-07-29 DOI:10.1093/obo/9780199756223-0312
Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Tennyson S. D. Joseph
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The works included in this compendium summary address themes relevant to the elections and democracy in the Caribbean region. The states that fall within the relevant “region” include the formerly English, French, and Dutch colonies in the Caribbean Sea and the South and Central American mainland, as well as the remaining English, French, Dutch, Danish, and Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. The aim of this bibliography is to provide readers and researchers with a broad overview of the kinds of theoretical, thematic, and empirical emphases that have framed the questions around which the electoral and democratic landscape of the Caribbean has been studied. For purposes of clarification, the collection does not address Caribbean democracy as a stand-alone isolated issue, but instead provides a survey of works on elections in the Caribbean through the lens of their interrelation with Caribbean democratic history, practice, culture, and constitutional development and institutional framework. (A survey of Caribbean democracy will require isolated treatment). Relatedly, while the article addresses the experience of the wider Caribbean, much of the emphasis on the intellectual output is on the works relevant to the English-speaking Caribbean. Where the experiences of the non-English countries have given rise to critical intellectual interventions, these are included to bring balance to the Caribbean story and to highlight commonalities and divergences, useful for researchers interested in comparative analyses. Following this introduction, the article is divided into eleven thematic sections, examining (1) seminal texts and works on Caribbean democracy and Caribbean elections, or works providing general data and analysis of large blocs of countries or works presenting pathbreaking theoretical treatment of critical issues in Caribbean democracy; (2) texts addressing the issue of the administration and governance of elections, inclusive of concerns with money and electoral financing; (3) texts concerned with constitutional development; (4) texts on electoral reform; (5) works addressing dysfunctionalities such as electoral corruption and electoral violence; (6) women and political participation; (7) public opinion and voting behavior; (8) works concerned with providing analyses of the results and outcomes of Caribbean elections in a largely statistical or data-capturing sense; and (9) works that have sought to offer analyses of Caribbean elections in relation to the broader political-economy of the region. Given the reality of ethnic division and the absence of racial and cultural uniformity in several countries of the Caribbean, one of the sections is devoted to (10) surveying some of the key works that have addressed the challenges of ethnicity, ethnic mobilization, and ethnic voting, and their implications for democratic development. The final section presents (11) the main works that have sought to address the very important question of election monitoring in the Caribbean.
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加勒比地区的选举与民主
本简编摘要所载的工作涉及与加勒比区域选举和民主有关的主题。属于相关“地区”的国家包括加勒比海、南美洲和中美洲大陆的前英国、法国和荷兰殖民地,以及加勒比海剩余的英国、法国、荷兰、丹麦和西班牙殖民地。本参考书目的目的是为读者和研究人员提供对各种理论、主题和实证重点的广泛概述,这些重点构成了研究加勒比选举和民主格局的问题。为了澄清,该集没有将加勒比民主作为一个独立的孤立问题来处理,而是通过其与加勒比民主历史、实践、文化、宪法发展和体制框架的相互关系,对加勒比选举工作进行了调查。(对加勒比民主的调查需要单独处理)。与此相关的是,虽然这篇文章讲述了大加勒比地区的经验,但对智力输出的大部分强调都是与英语加勒比地区相关的作品。非英语国家的经验引发了批判性的智力干预,其中包括这些干预,以平衡加勒比地区的故事,并突出共性和差异,这对有兴趣进行比较分析的研究人员很有用。在这一介绍之后,本文分为十一个主题部分,审查(1)关于加勒比民主和加勒比选举的开创性文本和著作,或提供大集团国家的一般数据和分析的著作,或对加勒比民主中的关键问题进行开拓性理论处理的著作;(2) 涉及选举管理和治理问题的案文,包括对资金和选举筹资的关切;(3) 与宪法发展有关的文本;(4) 关于选举改革的案文;(5) 解决选举腐败和选举暴力等功能障碍的工作;(6) 妇女与政治参与;(7) 公众舆论和投票行为;(8) 主要从统计或数据采集的角度分析加勒比选举的结果和结果;以及(9)试图结合该地区更广泛的政治经济对加勒比选举进行分析的工作。鉴于加勒比一些国家存在种族分裂和种族和文化不统一的现实,其中一节专门介绍了(10)探讨种族、种族动员和种族投票挑战及其对民主发展的影响的一些关键工作。最后一节介绍(11)设法解决加勒比选举监测这一非常重要问题的主要工作。
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