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Society and Electoral Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

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The distribution of political power in the Commonwealth Caribbean has been transformed since World War II by the introduction of adult suffrage. White élites, previously entrenched behind restrictive property franchises, have seen their electoral advantage disappear, and only a few individual whites have been successful at the polls, usually because of their backing by recently created, anti-colonial parties. Everywhere, coloured (brown) and black political élites have emerged to fill the legislative and executive vacuum created by the departure or demise of Creole and expatriate whites.

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Clarke, C. (1991). Society and Electoral Politics in Trinidad and Tobago. In: Clarke, C. (eds) Society and Politics in the Caribbean. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11987-5_3

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