- 1. Introduction
- I. Prerevolutionary Cuba
- 2. Governing through PluralizatIon, 1902–1933
- The Political Impact of Imperialism
- Imperalism and a Pluralized Economy
- Government Authority
- The Purposes of Government
- The Political Party System
- Cleavages outside the Party System
- 3. Governing through Regulation and Distribution, 1933–1958
- The Retreat of Empire and the Rise of Hegemony
- Hegemony and the Economy
- Social Mobilization
- Economic Growth and Social Welfare
- Government Authority
- The Weight of Government
- The Purposes of Government
- Political Cleavages and Parties
- 4. The Breakdown of the Political System
- The Problem of Political Illegitimacy
- The Politics of Breakdown
- 2. Governing through PluralizatIon, 1902–1933
- II. Revolutionary Cuba: Governing through Centralization
- 5. International Influences, Society, and the Economy
- Hegemony and Revolutionary Politics
- Social Mobilization through Education
- The Economy and Social Welfare
- 6. Establishing a New Government
- Government Authority and the Centralization of Power
- Structuring Revolutionary Politics
- The Formation of the Communist Party
- Social Bases and Political Purposes
- Social Effects of Redistribution
- Bureaucratization and Social Change
- The Constitution of 1976 and the Formalization of the State
- The Law and the Courts
- 7. Mass Political Participation
- The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
- The Cuban Women’s Federation
- The Cuban Labor Confederation
- Youth Organizations
- The Political Impact of Popular Participation in Government
- Elections and Electoral Procedures
- Political Mobilization
- Measuring the Public Mood
- 8. The Communist Party
- The Ruling Elite
- Party Membership
- The Communist Youth Union
- Functions of the Communist Party
- Internal Party Structure
- Party Schools
- The Party’s Claim to Rule
- 9. The Civic Soldier
- The Military Mission of the Armed Forces
- The Socioeconomic Mission of the Armed Forces
- The Political Mission of the Armed Forces
- 5. International Influences, Society, and the Economy
- III. Political Processes and Change
- 10. Setting Public Policy
- Setting Economic Policy
- Setting Intellectual and Scientific Policy
- Policymaking and Social Institutions
- Legislation and Legislative Processes
- Planning for the Nation
- 11. Agrarian Conflict and Peasant Politics
- Agrarian Conflict before the Revolutlon
- Revolution, Revolutionary Rule, and Agrarian Conflict
- The National Association of Small Peasants
- 12. Political Culture
- Political Participation Cooperation and Individualism
- Explaining Continuity and Change after the Revolution
- Change among Students in the Early 1960s
- National Integration
- Forming the New Socialist Citizen
- Women and the Revolution
- Social Stress and Revolutionory Change
- 10. Setting Public Policy
- Appendixes
- The Impact of International Economic Factors on Internal Affairs: Three Perspectives
- Changes in the Height of Cubans
- Racial Inequality in Public Health
- Textual Changes in the Draft Constitution of 1976 and the Draft Family Code
- Members of the People’s Socialist Party in the Communist Party’s Central Committee
- Cooperation among Cuban Scientists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index


Cuba
Order and Revolution
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ISBN 9780674179257
Publication Date: 11/20/1978