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Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands / Jean-Paul Carvalho, Christian Dippel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carvalho, Jean-Paul.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22777.
- NBER working paper series no. w22777
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Elite Identity and Political Accountability
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- Emancipation of slaves in the 1830s transformed the political elites of the British-Caribbean plantation islands. New elites were more accountable to the citizenry. We develop a theory in which two factors limit and possibly reverse the effect of this on political outcomes, with legislators (i) 'stepping up to pass extractive policies and/or (ii) weakening democratic institutions. The theory is supported by an historical analysis of ten Caribbean plantation islands, based on original archival data on legislator race, occupation and roll-call voting. Eventually, all assemblies that experienced a significant change in composition dissolved themselves and converted to British 'Crown Rule'.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2016.
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