Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy

By Irwin P. Stotzky

Book Overview

Silencing the Guns in Haiti traces Haiti's halting and uncertain quest for democracy from the perspective of someone who played a leading part in every stage of that process.

"A provocative study of the prospects for the rule of law in Haiti."--Marilyn Bowden, Miami Today

" Stotzky] deepens insights into the contradictory obstacles to democratic governance in Haiti."--Library Journal

"Controversial and stimulating."--Choice

"Lucid and informative. . . . Stotzky gives readers a good foundation for understanding the pressures facing the impoverished but determined Caribbean island."--Islands

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226776263
• ISBN13: 9780226776262
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"