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Dominican Party Politics
PLD / PRM · 1978– · Dominican Republic · Competitive Blocs · Electoral party · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Alternating parties in a state that emerged from one of the hemisphere's longest dictatorships and shares an island with its poorest country.
Economic model
Tourism, free trade zones, remittances, mining; sustained growth with high inequality.
Organisation of powers
Competitive elections with alternation; a 2020 change of governing party after sixteen years.
Reading note
Constitutional amendments in 2010 and 2024 removed birthright citizenship from the children of undocumented Haitian migrants, retroactively statelessing tens of thousands.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +05
Coded +5: tourism, free zones and remittances with high inequality.
- Comparative datasetSustained growth has coexisted with among the region's higher inequality measures.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +06
Coded +6: Catholic social conservatism with a total abortion ban.
- Documented act or statuteAbortion is prohibited without exception, one of a handful of such jurisdictions.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +03
Coded +3: competitive elections with alternation in 2020.
- Documented act or statutePower changed hands after sixteen years of one party's rule.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +04
Coded +4: a centralised unitary state.
- Documented act or statuteProvincial governors are appointed by the presidency.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +06
At the exclusionary end for the hemisphere: birthright citizenship removed retroactively.
- Documented act or statuteA 2013 constitutional court ruling stripped citizenship from people born to undocumented parents back to 1929, statelessing tens of thousands.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −04
Coded −4: constitutional since the end of the Balaguer period.
- Documented act or statuteRegular elections since 1978 with periodic disputes.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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