Cuba: Order and RevolutionHarvard University Press, 2009 M06 1 - 683 páginas Upon publication in the late 1970s this book was the first major historical analysis of twentieth-century Cuba. Focusing on the way Cuba has been governed, and in particular on the way a changing elite has made claims to legitimate rule, it carefully examines each of Cuba's three main political eras: the first, from Independence in 1902 to the Presidency of Gerardo Machado in 1933; the second, under Batista, from 1934 until 1958; and finally, Castro's revolution, from 1959 to the present. |
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... Elections and Electoral Procedures 286 Political Mobilization 298 Measuring the Public Mood 303 8 The Communist Party The Ruling Elite 307 Party Membership 315 The Communist Youth Union 321 Functions of the Communist Party 323 Internal ...
... Elections and legal and constitutional norms played some part in legitimating the first two political systems , but their effectiveness remained incomplete and tenuous . Under revolutionary rule , they became a part of the claim to ...
... elections . Because prerevolutionary politics was frag- mented , however , most of the major national offices and organizations had substantial autonomy . After 1959 , the ability of political and governmental organizations to operate ...
... elections in the 1970s did not lead to more substantial political competition or popular control over the government . Through 1977 , organized political participation under revolutionary rule continued to have only very limited ef ...
... election times . In fact , politicians switched not only to the probable victor but also to the probable loser and attempted to provoke United States interference by charges of election fraud . The loser of the election was not ...
Contenido
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Imperialism and a Pluralized Economy | 19 |
Government Authority | 28 |
The Purposes of Government | 33 |
The Political Party System | 38 |
Cleavages outside the Party System | 44 |
The Communist Party | 306 |
The Ruling Elite | 307 |
Party Membership | 315 |
The Communist Youth Union | 321 |
Functions of the Communist Party | 323 |
Internal Party Structure | 330 |
Party Schools | 336 |
The Partys Claim to Rule | 337 |
Governing through Regulation and Distribution 19331958 | 54 |
The Retreat of Empire and the Rise of Hegemony | 58 |
Hegemony and the Economy | 66 |
Social Mobilization | 71 |
Economic Growth and Social Welfare | 72 |
Government Authority | 76 |
The Weight of Government | 80 |
The Purposes of Government | 84 |
Political Cleavages and Parties | 95 |
The Breakdown of the Political System | 110 |
The Politics of Breakdown | 123 |
International Influences Society and the Economy | 137 |
Hegemony and Revolutionary Politics | 139 |
Social Mobilization through Education | 165 |
The Economy and Social Welfare | 173 |
Establishing a New Government | 191 |
Government Authority and the Centralization of Power | 193 |
Structuring Revolutionary Politics | 206 |
The Formation of the Communist Party | 210 |
Social Bases and Political Purposes | 218 |
Social Effects of Redistribution | 221 |
Bureaucratization and Social Change | 233 |
The Constitution of 1976 and the Formalization of the State | 243 |
The Law and the Courts | 249 |
Mass Political Participation | 260 |
The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution | 261 |
The Cuban Womens Federation | 267 |
The Cuban Labor Confederation | 271 |
Youth Organizations | 279 |
The Political Impact of Popular Participation in Government | 281 |
Elections and Electoral Procedures | 286 |
Political Mobilization | 298 |
Measuring the Public Mood | 303 |
The Civic Soldier | 341 |
The Military Mission of the Armed Forces | 345 |
The Socioeconomic Mission of the Armed Forces | 356 |
The Political Mission of the Armed Forces | 364 |
Setting Public Policy | 381 |
Setting Economic Policy | 383 |
Setting Intellectual and Scientific Policy | 391 |
Policymaking and Social Institutions | 408 |
Legislation and Legislative Processes | 415 |
Planning for the Nation | 417 |
Agrarian Conflict and Peasant Politics | 423 |
Agrarian Conflict before the Revolution | 424 |
Revolution Revolutionary Rule and Agrarian Conflict | 435 |
The National Association of Small Peasants | 445 |
Political Culture | 464 |
Political Participation Cooperation and Individualism | 465 |
Explaining Continuity and Change after the Revolution | 472 |
Change among Students in the Early 1960s | 474 |
National Integration | 478 |
Forming the New Socialist Citizen | 485 |
Women and the Revolution | 494 |
Social Stress and Revolutionary Change | 504 |
The Impact of International Economic Factors on Internal Affairs Three Perspectives | 513 |
Changes in the Height of Cubans | 515 |
Racial Inequality in Public Health | 521 |
Textual Changes in the Draft Constitution of 1976 and the Draft Family Code | 527 |
Members of the Peoples Socialist Party in the Communist Partys Central Committee | 533 |
Cooperation among Cuban Scientists | 535 |
Notes | 541 |
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