Costs of Regime Survival Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad

This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Political survival can very often depend on a leader's willingness to serve the interests of a small, but politically strategic minority. In both Guyana and Trinidad, post-independence leaders made politically expedient decisions resulting in a series of political and economic crises.Hintzen, Percy C. is the author of 'Costs of Regime Survival Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination, and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad' with ISBN 9780521363785 and ISBN 0521363780.