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The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

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During the last several decades, the Dominican Republic has
experienced striking political stagnation regardless of dramatic
socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn
offers a new explanation for the country’s political evolution,
based on a broad comparative viewpoint.
Hartlyn rejects cultural explanations unduly focused on
legacies from the Spanish colonial era and structural
explanations excessively centered at the lack of national
autonomy. As a substitute, he highlights the independent have an effect on of
political and institutional factors and historical legacies,
while also taking into consideration changes in Dominican society and the
influence of the USA and other international forces.
In particular, Hartlyn examines how the Dominican Republic’s
tragic nineteenth-century history established a legacy of
neopatrimonialism, a form of rule that found extreme expression
in the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo and has continued to shape
politics down to the present. By examining economic policymaking
and ceaselessly conflictual elections, Hartlyn also analyzes the missed
opportunity for democracy right through the rule of the Dominican
Revolutionary Party and the democratic tensions of the
administrations of Joaquin Balaguer.

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