D�mocratie D�raill�e (Democracy Derailed) Understanding Haiti's Debilitating Legacy of Ineffective Governance and Instability

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Hicks, Barbara

Keywords

Haiti, Democracy, Ineffective Goverance

Area of Concentration

Political Science

Abstract

For over two centuries, instability has been a consistent description of Haiti's condition. In the first two months of 2004, Haiti celebrated the bicentennial anniversary of its independence with the forced exile of yet another president and increased levels of chaos and disorder. The objective of this thesis is to reveal the factors that best explain Haiti's legacy of ineffective governance and dependency and show how they relate to one another throughout four distinct periods of Haitian history. Dependent relations with foreign superpowers, authoritarian and militaristic legacies, and a divided civil society are the most prominent causal factors that account for Haiti's chronically unstable condition throughout its twohundred year existence. The empirical data within the study will support this explanation of the elements that contributed to Haiti's current fate as the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere.

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