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- Title
EXIT OVER VOICE IN DOMINICAN ETHNORACIAL POLITICS.
- Authors
Contreras, Danilo Antonio
- Abstract
This article examines the effect of perceived ethnoracial identity on electoral politics in the Dominican Republic and provides an explanation for the low salience of race and ethnicity in political behavior in Latin America. I argue that, under certain conditions, individuals will deal with ethnoracial discrimination and stratification through exit rather than voice—that is, they will reclassify their way out of marginalized ethnoracial categories instead of voting for candidates or parties that share their ethnoracial identities. This tends to be the case where ethnoracial group identity is inchoate and group boundaries are permeable. I also argue that where ethnoracial group loyalties are weak and immigration is widespread, citizens may emphasize national origin over race or ethnicity. Findings from an original field experiment and survey in Santo Domingo show that candidates did not consistently support candidates that shared their ethnoracial attributes, but they did slightly favor candidates perceived as white. Respondents strongly discriminated against candidates of Haitian origin.
- Subjects
DOMINICAN Republic politics &; government; RACE &; politics; ETHNIC relations; RACE identity; SOCIAL stratification; RACE discrimination &; politics
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 3, p202
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lar.2016.0041