Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic [Hardcover]

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.Introduction*Island, State, and Community*Kin, Friends, and Leaders*Chapter 4*Negotiating Rule: The Reformists and the Public Sector*Negotiating Rule: Political Fraud as Interaction*Constructing Masculinity, Negotiating Rule*Making the Nation*Bloody Memories*Conclusion

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.