TY - BOOK AU - Menke, Jack TI - The performance and suitability of the standard system of political democracy : a comparative analysis of Guyana and Suriname T2 - The Integrationist PY - 2006/// CY - Jamaica PB - Ian Randle Publishers KW - Macrothesaurus KW - Foreign Policy KW - Foreign Relations KW - Foreign Trade KW - Guyana KW - Suriname N1 - Published for the UWI-CARICOM Project N2 - Seeks to explain differences and similarities in the structures of the Surinamese and Guyanese societies, the political system that emerged and the performance since the first election under universal suffrage. Assumes that while there are differences between Guyana and Suriname with regard to the ethnic diversity, the political system and ethnic conflict, both societies are in a crisis of democracy and development that connot be explained by the 'plural society' and related concepts ER -