State And Society In The Dominican Republic
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Author_Emelio Betances
authoritarian regimes
Bonapartist Regime
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Caudillo Politics
cibao
Cibao Region
class formation
Dominican Affairs
Dominican Debts
Dominican Economy
Dominican Finance
Dominican Government
Dominican Peso
Dominican Republic
Dominican Sugar
Dominican Sugar Industry
economy
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finance
foreign capital investment
Foreign Merchants
government
heureaux
Hobart A. Spalding
industry
International Capitalist System
Joaquin Balaguer
latin
Latin American studies
military intervention
Partido Azul
political sociology
Provost Courts
Public Works Program
region
Secretary Of State
state building in Caribbean history
sugar
Sugar Business
Sugar Corporations
Sugar Industry
Trujillo Dictatorship
ulises
Ulises Heureaux
United States
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- ISBN 9780813386829
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Ram res. 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 Joaqu Balaguer, 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.
Emelio Betances is associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Gettysburg College.
