Wright, Gerald C. Jr.

The study begins with the hypothesis that economic and political
variables are the salient determinants of ethnic conflicts in
developing societies. The purposes of the thesis are threefold:
(1) to explore the influence of inequitable revenue allocations and
unequal distribution of political power among ethnic groups of
Pakistan; (2) to assess the influence of elites on the political
development of that polyethnic society; and (3) to identify the
alternatives open to elites in dealing with the problem of political
integration raised by Pathan regionalism in Pakistan.
Literature dealing with the elite approach to such problems
and the outcomes of such approaches are examined. Elite attitudes
and structures of their approaches to similar conflicts in other
developing societies were related to problems of political integration
in Pakistan. Drawing on this discussion the conclusion outlines
certain alternative options and their probable outcome for
the task of national integration in Pakistan.

The historic instability of pre-Castro politics in Cuba is
developed into three hypotheses dealing with a national
personality dominated by old order values which tend to be
anti-democratic, group-divisive, symbolic as opposed to realistic,
and dominated largely by the allure of personalismo,
a hypothesized Latin political phenomenon in which personalities
obscure the issues. The hypotheses were tested in the
analysis of a survey of samples of Cuban- and native-born
high school students in Dade County, Florida.