Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century (eBook, PDF)

Continuity and Change
Redaktion: Jiménez Polanco, Jacqueline; Sagás, Ernesto

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades. Whereas traditional political parties have lost support throughout Latin America, Dominican democracy remains flawed but vibrant with a popular embrace of party politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000827668
• Artikelnr.: 67249408

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in political science and sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a concentration in political changes in contemporary democracies. Dr. Jiménez Polanco is the author of Los partidos políticos en la República Dominicana: Actividad electoral y desarrollo organizativo, Corrupción y cartelización de la política en la República Dominicana, and La corrupción política en la República Dominicana y la entronización del partido cartel. She was granted a PSC-CUNY Award and a CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Research Fellowship in 2022. Ernesto Sagás is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida with a concentration in Latin American studies. Dr. Sagás is the author of Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic, and co-editor of The Dominican People: A Documentary History, and Dominican Migration: Transnational Perspectives. In 2022, he was a Fulbright U.S. scholar in La Paz, Bolivia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributions
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Reflections on Patterns of Change and Continuity in Dominican
Politics
Jonathan Hartlyn
Introduction: Revisiting Dominican Politics
Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
1. The Transition and Consolidation of Democracy in the Dominican Republic:
Continuities and Disruptions
Carlos Morel and Anselmo Muñiz
2. Democracy, Continuismo, and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic
Ernesto Sagás
3. Distributive Politics: Clientelism and Social Expenditure in the
Dominican Republic
Ana Belén Benito Sánchez
4. The Odebrecht Fraud: An Analysis of Corruptive Practices in the PLD's
Cartel Politics
Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
5. A New Expression of dominicanidad: The Dominican ID Card, Technology and
Race
Eve Hayes de Kalaf
6. We Want to Be Counted Too: The Evolution of Dominican Overseas Voting,
2004- 2020
Ernesto Sagás
Conclusion: Continuity and Change in Dominican Politics: Comparative
Perspectives
Ernesto Sagás
Index