Democratic socialism: an alternative path of development? -- State, party and society in a post-colonial plantation-mineral enclave economy -- The PNP's first term: tasks at the outset and populist politics in the first years 1972-74 -- The first term: ideological definition and social polarization 1974-6 -- The second term: the rise and fall of the left alternative -- The second term: the struggle with the IMF -- Seaga's return to dependent capitalism -- Jamaica's democratic socialist path: an evaluation -- Lessons of the Manley government: democratic socialism as an alternative development path -- Reading and coding of newspaper reports -- Jamaican elite: 1974 and 1982.

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