Research Journal Template
Political Science 101-001 Country Research Project
Question
Looking at the population
and national groupings,
how strong is popular
respect for human rights
and freedoms in your
state?
Is your state a unitary or
federal system?
How many political
parties are in operation
in the state?
What are the levels of
voter participation &
turnout?
Search words
Human rights
Freedom of the press
Freedom of speech
Freedom of assembly
National/ethnic groupings
Political culture
Democracy
Democracy
Cuba
Federation
Caribbean
Greater Antilles
Federal
Unitary
political structure
Topic/Section
Country Name
Nationalism, national
groupings
Human rights
political parties in the
Caribbean
Greater Antilles political
parties’ system
Parties
Democracy
Antilles
Antilles,
Caribbean voter turnout
rates
Antilles
Antilles,
Sub-National
Governments
Parties
Parties
Greater Antilles voter
turnout rates
Caribbean, Election, Voters,
Voting, Statistics
Full Citation of Source(s)
Sarkar, Smuit “Nationalism and poverty: discourses of
development and culture in 20th century India” Third
world Quarterly (2008): 429-445. Web. Oct 18, 2013
Chad Rector. (2009). Federations: The Political
Dynamics of Cooperation. Cornell University Press.
Bishop, M. L., Corbett, J., & Veenendaal, W. (2020).
Labor movements and party system development: Why
does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but
the Pacific does not? World Development, 126.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104719
Summary, key facts, quotes, your own notes
“The economic transition to ‘structural adjustment’,
liberalisation, and globalisation, involving massive
concessions to multinationals and a pro-us tilt in
foreign policy, has gone along with an increasingly
aggressive emphasis on Hindu cultural-religious
identity”
“In January 1958, on the verge of independence from
Britain, a group of
twenty-four inhabited islands in the Caribbean,
comprising ten political
units, entered the Federation of the West Indies.
Jamaica was the most
populous, followed by Trinidad and Tobago, and then
Barbados.…
Jamaica supported federation in name
only, consistently opposing moves to implement an
actual federal system,
and its voters by referendum seceded from the union
in September 1961,
leading to a chain reaction of secessions that ended
with the abandonment of the project by the end of
1962.”
“Caribbean and Pacific are highly democratic yet
represent extremes of party system development”
“The Caribbean and Pacific regions share many
similarities—comprised mostly of small island
developing states (SIDS) with an analogous colonial
legacy, Westminster-style institutions and a notably
strong record of democracy—but they represent
extreme cases when it comes to the development of
party systems.1 Anglophone Caribbean countries
have the most stable and “purest” two-party systems
in the world (cf. Lijphart, 1999, 27–30),”