The Failure Of The Democratic Left In The Dominican Republic
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The Failure of the Democratic Left in the Dominican Republic
Author | : Charles H. Weston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Dominican Republic |
ISBN | : |
The Failure of the Dominican Democratic Left
Author | : Charles H. Weston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1012 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Dominican Republic |
ISBN | : |
The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic
Author | : Jonathan Hartlyn |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A political history of the Dominican Republic, focused especially on the nature of its struggles for democracy during the past 35 years.
Leftism Reinvented
Author | : Stephanie L. Mudge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9780674984837 |
Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of their own--albeit in an angry, anti-immigrant tone. To better understand today's strange new political world, Stephanie L. Mudge's Leftism Reinvented analyzes the history of the Swedish and German Social Democrats, the British Labour Party, and the American Democratic Party. Breaking with an assumption that parties simply respond to forces beyond their control, Mudge argues that left parties' changing promises expressed the worldviews of different kinds of experts. To understand how left parties speak, we have to understand the people who speak for them. Leftism Reinvented shows how Keynesian economists came to speak for left parties by the early 1960s. These economists saw their task in terms of discretionary, politically-sensitive economic management. But in the 1980s a new kind of economist, who viewed the advancement of markets as left parties' main task, came to the fore. Meanwhile, as voters' loyalties to left parties waned, professional strategists were called upon to "spin" party messages. Ultimately, left parties undermined themselves, leaving a representative vacuum in their wake. Leftism Reinvented raises new questions about the roles and responsibilities of left parties--and their experts--in politics today.--
Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe
Author | : John Higley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521424226 |
A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
Author | : Diana Kapiszewski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 587 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 110890159X |
Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.
The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic
Author | : Jonathan Hartlyn |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807861936 |
Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new explanation for the country's political evolution, based on a broad comparative perspective. Hartlyn rejects cultural explanations unduly focused on legacies from the Spanish colonial era and structural explanations excessively centered on the lack of national autonomy. Instead, he highlights the independent impact of political and institutional factors and historical legacies, while also considering changes in Dominican society and the influence of the United States 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 often conflictual elections, Hartlyn also analyzes the missed opportunity for democracy during the rule of the Dominican Revolutionary Party and the democratic tensions of the administrations of Joaquin Balaguer.
The Continuing Struggle For Democracy In Latin America
Author | : Howard J. Wiarda |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000315649 |
This integrated collection of original essays evaluates and assesses whether democracy is viable in Latin America and, if so, how and in what form. The authors examine the significance, for both Latin America and the United States, of the dominance of authoritarian political systems in most Latin American countries; explore the implications of asse
The Dominican Republic
Author | : Frank Moya Pons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This work examines the distinct political periods in the country's history, such as the Spanish, French, Haitian, and US occupations and the several periods of self-rule. It also covers a socioeconomic history by establishing links between socioeconomic conditions and political developments.