The modernization of Puerto Rico : a political study of changing values and institutions

PREFACE CONTENTS TABLES INTRODUCTION PART I. THE SOCIOCULTURAL BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1. THE TRADITIONAL VALUE SYSTEM CHAPTER 2. NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY AND POLITICS PART II. CULTURES IN CONFLICT CHAPTER 3. THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE CHAPTER 4. PUERTO RICAN RESPONSES CHAPTER 5. THE DESPERATE THIRTIES PART III. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE CHAPTER 6. BREAKTHROUGH TOWARD MODERNITY CHAPTER 7. MODERNIZING THE ECONOMY CHAPTER 8. SOCIAL MODERNIZATION PART IV. POLITICAL CHANGE CHAPTER 9. GOVERNMENTAL REFORMS CHAPTER 10. ACHIEVEMENT OF COMMONWEALTH STATUS CHAPTER 11. POLITICAL-STATUS CONTROVERSIES AFTER 1952 PART V. POLITICAL STABILITY CHAPTER 12. POLITICS, THE PEOPLE, AND THE PPD CHAPTER 13. THE LEADERSHIP OF LUIS MUNOZ MARIN CHAPTER 14. AFTER MUNOZ? NOTES INDEX Study of the impact of political leadership on cultural change and social change in Puerto Rico - covers the political and historical background, the role of USA in changing patterns of behaviour towards Innovation in the economy, government policy, the role of political parties, parliamentary practices, legal status, nationalist ideologies, etc. References pp. 339 to 417