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9780833036179
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When the end of the Castro era arrives, the successor government and theCuban people will need to answer certain questions: How is Castro?s morethan four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What will be thepolitical, social, and economic challenges Cuba will confront? What are theimpediments to Cuba?s economic development and democratic transition? Theauthors examine Castro?s political legacies, Cuba?s generational and racialdivisions, its demographic predicament, the legacy of a centralized economy,and the need for industrial restructuring.
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Cover -- Preface -- The RAND Corporation Quality Assurance Process -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Political Legacies, Social Challenges -- CHAPTER TWO - Castro's Political Legacies: Caudilloism and Totalitarianism -- Background -- Pillars of Support for the Castro Regime, 1959-1991 -- Surviving the Crisis of the 1990s -- Clearing the Way for Regime Succession -- The Outlook for a Successor Communist Regime -- The Burden of Caudilloism on a Successor Communist Regime -- The Burden of Totalitarianism on Society -- The Democratic and Military Alternative -- CHAPTER THREE - Cuba's Disaffected Youth -- Background -- The Growing Alienation of Los Jóvenes -- The Regime's Counteroffensive and Implications forthe Future -- CHAPTER FOUR - Cuba's Racial Divide -- Background -- The Elusive Subject of Race in Castro's Cuba -- Race in Pre- and Post-1959 Cuba -- Increased Racial Tensions with the Advent of the Special Period -- The Racial Divide and Its Implications for a Cuba After Castro -- Part II: The Structural Challenges Ahead -- CHAPTER FIVE - Cuba's Changing Demographic Structure -- Pensions -- The Allocation of Social Service Resources -- Securing a Future Labor Force -- CHAPTER SIX - The Institutional Legacy of a Centralized Economy -- Cuba's Highly Educated but Low-Productivity Labor Force -- A Small and Deformed Private Sector -- Corruption -- CHAPTER SEVEN - The Need for Industrial Restructuring -- The Effects of Soviet Assistance on the Cuban Economy -- Cuba's Development Policies During the Special Period -- Cuba's Intermediate-Term Economic Prospects -- CHAPTER EIGHT - Conclusion -- The Crisis That Won't Go Away -- Present and Future Structural Challenges -- Implications for a Cuba After Castro -- Policy Implications for the United States -- Bibliography.
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Print version Cuba After Castro : Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments
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