Political Opportunities, Social Movements and Democratization, Volume 23 (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780762307869
Subjects: Political science & theory; Social mobility; Social Movements; Social Conflict; Social Science; Sociology; General; Government - State & Provincial; Public Policy - General; Political Science / Public Policy; Political Science-Government - State & Provincial; Political Science-Public Policy - General; Social Science / General; Research; Democratization
First sentence: This paper asserts that the Rastafarian movement's ideological challenge to the Jamaican democracy became meaningful to the Afro-Jamaican poor and political elites for three reasons.