Facilitator or hindrance of social change? The Westminster model and racial discrimination on the Jamaican labour Market, 1944-1980

TY - JOUR

T1 - Facilitator or hindrance of social change?

T2 - westminster in the caribbean

AU - Altink, Henrice

PY - 2015/1/28

Y1 - 2015/1/28

N2 - Between 1944 and 1962, Jamaica witnessed a process of Westminsterisation. The Westminster model has the potential to bring about socio-economic change as its executive can move its policy agenda quickly through the legislature because it is created from a majority in the legislature’s lower house. Yet it can also stifle change because of its lack of separation between the executive and legislative branches of government and other attributes. This article illustrates this duality of the Westminster model in the Caribbean through a case study of the attitudes of the Jamaican government towards racial discrimination on the labour market between 1944 and 1980.

AB - Between 1944 and 1962, Jamaica witnessed a process of Westminsterisation. The Westminster model has the potential to bring about socio-economic change as its executive can move its policy agenda quickly through the legislature because it is created from a majority in the legislature’s lower house. Yet it can also stifle change because of its lack of separation between the executive and legislative branches of government and other attributes. This article illustrates this duality of the Westminster model in the Caribbean through a case study of the attitudes of the Jamaican government towards racial discrimination on the labour market between 1944 and 1980.

KW - Westminster

KW - Jamaica

KW - Racial discrimination

KW - Democratic socialism

KW - Jamaicanisation

KW - Nationalisation

U2 - 10.1080/14662043.2014.993142

DO - 10.1080/14662043.2014.993142

M3 - Article

SN - 1466-2043

VL - 53

SP - 29

EP - 48

JO - Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

JF - Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

IS - 1

Y2 - 19 September 2013 through 20 September 2013

ER -