Democracy and Social Empowerment in Small Island Jurisdictions

Peter E. Buker and Mark Lapping ()
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Peter E. Buker: Yorkville University
Mark Lapping: University of Prince Edward Island

Chapter Chapter 6 in Shaping the Future of Small Islands, 2021, pp 111-124 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4883-3_6

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