Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this

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This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last coup

In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and sm

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