00585nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000240001724500860004126000090012752003320013658300190046820260716043342.0  aMC ELROY, Jerome L.  aSocial and economic propensity for political dependence in the insular Caribbean.  c1995  aPoints out that the process of decolonisation has stalled in the insular Caribbean.  Since 1983 no island has achieved independence in the 16 dependent territories that remain, islanders have consistently voted in favour of the political status quo and, by assumption, the lucrative package of territorial economic concessions.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR