State and Society in the Dominican Republic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19904465
AutoresEmelio Betances, Hobart A Spalding
Año2018
Páginas162
Fecha de publicación2018-03-05
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaState and Society in the Dominican Republic (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429497186
OpenAlexW2334429322
Open LibraryOL53976512M
ISBN9780429497186
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

This book offers an analysis of the formation of the Dominican state and explores the development of state-society relations since the late nineteenth century. Emelio Betances argues that the groundwork for the establishment of a modern state was laid during the regimes of Ulises Heureaux and Ramà ̄¿Â1⁄2à ̄¿Â1⁄2res. The U.S. military government that followed later expanded and strengthened political and administrative centralization. Between 1886 and 1924, these administrations opened the sugar industry to foreign capital investment, integrated Dominican finance into the international credit system, and expanded the role of the military. State expansion, however, was not accompanied by a strengthening of the social and economic base of national elites. Betances suggests that the imbalance between a strong state and a weak civil society provided the structural framework for the emergence in 1930 of the long-lived Trujillo dictatorship.Examining the links between Trujillo and current caudillo Joaquà ̄¿Â1⁄2Balaguer, the author traces continuities and discontinuities in economic and political development through a study of import substitution programs, the reemergence of new economic groups, and the use of the military to counter threats to the status quo. Finally, he explores the impact of foreign intervention and socioeconomic change on the process of state and class formation since 1961

Geography · Political science · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · Cuban History and Society · 83.30 economic conditions, development and structure: general · Business & Economics · Dominican republic · Economic conditions · Economic history · General · History · Industries · politics and government · Social conditions