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Democracy in the Commonwealth Carribean

Issue Date April 1993
Volume 4
Issue 2
Page Numbers 84-94
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About the Author

Clifford E. Griffin is assistant professor of political science at North Carolina State University. A native of Nevis, he has published articles on post-1983 Grenada, the prospects for democracy in Haiti and Cuba, and the inter-American system. He is the author of Democracy in Developing and Transforming Countries (forthcoming).

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