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Democracy and Social Empowerment in Small Island Jurisdictions

In: Shaping the Future of Small Islands

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  • Peter E. Buker

    (Yorkville University
    University of Prince Edward Island)

  • Mark Lapping

    (University of Prince Edward Island
    University of Southern Maine)

Abstract

This chapter looks at the future of democracy and social empowerment sustainability in small island jurisdictions through concepts of international integration and fragmentation, interdependence, and stressors derived from natural phenomena and a global new authoritarianism. Democracy and civil-society functioning are linked to the particular vulnerabilities that describe the often-extreme environments and geographies of small islands. Technological changes and of the relative powerlessness caused by limited export commodities, including tourism, affect small island vulnerabilities that have consequences for decision-making autonomy. The chapter is primarily speculative as to the future sustainability of small island jurisdictions; its fundamental contribution is that it links generalized geographic, economic, and social attributes of small islands to the future of autonomous decision-making within and outside of the political realm.

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  • Peter E. Buker & Mark Lapping, 2021. "Democracy and Social Empowerment in Small Island Jurisdictions," Springer Books, in: John Laing Roberts & Shyam Nath & Satya Paul & Yeti Nisha Madhoo (ed.), Shaping the Future of Small Islands, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 111-124, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-4883-3_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4883-3_6
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