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How “political” were the public jobs in La Descubierta in the early 1990s? Let me sketch an initial answer. For the sake of clarity, I shall limit myself to a look at the education sector, the hospital, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Post and Telecommunication offices.
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Similarly, E.P. Thompson showed how the English masses in the eighteenth century were more conservative, politically speaking, than the capitalist and ruling elites. The hunger riots of the poor were based on religiously informed patronage ideals—or ideas that dated at least from the sixteenth century—the emergency measures in time of crisis being codified in the Book of Orders. This moral and political thinking became a weapon of the weak in their struggles with representatives of the ruling groups over rights and obligations (Thompson 1971:79).
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Krohn-Hansen, C. (2009). Negotiating Rule: The Reformists and the Public Sector. In: Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617773_4
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