Description
Book SynopsisThe recurring image throughout CARICOM is of the disintegration of civil society debilitating leaders into a crisis of governance. The book posits that the intensification of this crisis is compatible with the root cause of capitalist modernization with its rapid and disorientating changes. To mitigate the accompanying effects, a call is made for [re]conceptualization of the search for a solution through incorporating and strengthening the value of an ethical consciousness in our thinking and policies of governance. The idea is an urgent possibility, perhaps even a controversial and ambitious proposal, for the region to begin imagining how it might be brought about and what it would look like. The central aim and objective are to move towards a framework for continued theory development and empirical research thereby offering a new narrative on governance, and by extension, development. Recognizing that the inclusion of an ethical turn in governance is fraught with difficulty becaus
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Vulnerability of Governance in the Caribbean: Threats to sustainability
Chapter 2: What’s in an Ethical Turn?
Chapter 3: The Intellectual Bias Against Ethics
Chapter 4: Whence We’ve come: The Systemic Dimensions of Modernization
Chapter 5: Modernization and Its Institutional Manifestations on The Liberal Democratic State
Chapter 6: The Unintended Consequences (Paradoxes) of Good Governance
Chapter 7: The Paradox of Democracy: When Democracy Can Undermine Good
Governance
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Governing Without Government?
