Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 1-20

3. Island, State, and Community

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 21-47

4. Kin, Friends, and Leaders

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 49-94

5. Negotiating Rule: The Reformists and the Public Sector

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 95-115

6. Negotiating Rule: Political Fraud as Interaction

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 117-132

7. Constructing Masculinity, Negotiating Rule

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 133-156

8. Making the Nation

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 157-171

9. Bloody Memories

   • Christian Krohn-Hansen

   Pages 173-189

10. Conclusion

    • Christian Krohn-Hansen

    Pages 191-195

11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-249

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What is 'authoritarian rule' and is it best studied? Using the Dominican Republic, this book investigates new methods of analysis, arguing that it should be imperative to approach authoritarian histories – like other histories – on the basis of detailed investigations of power relationships, everyday practices and meanings.

• authoritarianism
• community
• Fraud
• interaction
• methods
• Public Sector
• reform
• relationships
• science and technology
• state
• latin american politics

"This book is an investigation of political networks and cultural ideas of power and authority conducted by the author since the early 1990s in the Dominican Republic. This is a richly documented and well-informed study of how authoritarian rule was created, legitimated, and embraced by various dominant and subaltern groups in Dominican society for many decades." - Thomas Blom Hansen, Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the Universiteit van Amsterdam

CHRISTIAN KROHN-HANSEN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is coeditor, with Knut G. Nustad, of State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives.

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