{"id":47472,"date":"1998-04-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-04-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominicans-have-poor-opinion-of-political-parties-and-congressmen\/"},"modified":"1998-04-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-04-02T01:43:56","slug":"dominicans-have-poor-opinion-of-political-parties-and-congressmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/04\/02\/dominicans-have-poor-opinion-of-political-parties-and-congressmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans have poor opinion of political parties and congressmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poll carried out by the Instituto de Estudios de Poblaci&oacute;n y Desarrollo, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development and its Proyecto para el Apoyo a Iniciativas Democr&aacute;ticas carried out by the Pontificia Universidad Cat&oacute;lica Madre y Maestra, shows that political parties, congress and unions are the lowest on the list of entities and persons that Dominicans trust. Two of three persons interviewed believe that politics is a medium used by people to obtain personal benefits. Only 15.2% of those polled thinks that political participation is a way to help improve situations. Institutions Dominicans trust the most are the press and the church. The Demos 97, &quot;La cultura pol&iacute;tica dominicana: Entre el Paternalismo y la Participaci&oacute;n&quot; study was carried out from June and July 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poll carried out by the Instituto de Estudios de Poblaci&oacute;n y Desarrollo, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development and its Proyecto para el Apoyo a Iniciativas Democr&aacute;ticas carried out by the Pontificia Universidad Cat&oacute;lica Madre y Maestra, shows that political parties, congress and unions are the lowest on the list of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/04\/02\/dominicans-have-poor-opinion-of-political-parties-and-congressmen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}