The Eastern Caribbean Political Power Playbook

What sustains political leadership beyond an election victory?

Dr. Philbert Aaron examines political longevity in the Eastern Caribbean through ten strategies behind Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s sustained leadership. The book invites readers to look at the relationships, institutions, and decisions that shape power over time.

The question at the heart of the book

“My aim in this account is to explain Prime Minister Skerrit’s exceptional leadership longevity by answering the research question: How do the person, the job, the election system, and the jurisdiction explain Prime Minister Skerrit’s duration of prime ministerial tenure?”

Lesson One: “Start Very Tough,” pages 4–5.

For readers of Caribbean politics, leadership, governance, and small-state affairs.

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What you’ll take away

1. What explains leadership longevity.
Explore how the leader, the office, the election system, and the jurisdiction interact to shape political power over time.

2. How close relationships shape political power.
Understand the “politics of touch” and why everyday contact between leaders and voters matters in small states.

3. How leaders develop the capacity to endure.
Examine the role of learning from experience, developing as a leader, and directing national development.

A passage from the book

The politics of touch

“Call the politics of the Eastern Caribbean Model ‘the politics of touch.’ Tight and close political bonds distinguish the relationship between political leader and voter in this political model from the characteristics of the bonds in other political models. Here, touchpoints abound and are all-encompassing. The politician participates in celebrations of birth, christening, illness, weddings, and funerals of his constituents.”

From Lesson One: “Start Very Tough,” page 18.
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  • The Eastern Caribbean Political Power Playbook: 10 Strategies Behind PM Skerrit’s Success offers an unprecedented deep dive into the political mastery of Dominica’s longest serving leader. This playbook is more than a political memoir, it ‘s a leadership blueprint for aspiring politicians, strategists and observers of Caribbean politics.

  • Born and raised in Dominica, Philbert Aaron has built a distinguished career at the intersection of academia, public policy, and diplomacy. Trained in policy and leadership, he has long been recognized for bridging scholarly insight with practical solutions to governance and global challenges. Today he serves as Dominica’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in NYC, where his work continues to advance Dominica’s priorities on the global stage.

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