Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century

Continuity and Change
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-37754-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

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 and electoral systems have devolved into illiberal democracies, Dominican democracy remains flawed but vibrant with a popular embrace of party politics.

Across eight chapters, a collection of subject experts argue that the Dominican case offers valuable lessons to understand that even though traditional political parties are endangered throughout the region, they are not going anywhere. The book analyzes topics including electoral politics, the quality of Dominican democracy, political parties, corruption, relations with Haiti and the United States, migration, the Dominican diaspora, gender and politics, social movements, and civil participation and citizenship, to reveal how the Dominican case proves that traditional political parties can adapt in order to survive, turning themselves into major sources of patronage, appealing to personalistic politics, and tinkering with the constitution in order to stay relevant.

Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century will be a vital resource for understanding contemporary Dominican politics. It will appeal to political scientists, Latin Americanists, and students of democracy, comparative politics, and electoral politics in general.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jiménez Polanco, Jacqueline

Sagás, Ernesto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.