The Government Department has nominated Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government, for a tenured teaching position, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, said yesterday.

Sidney Verba, chairman of the Government Department, yesterday refused to confirm or deny whether his department had approved tenure for Dominguez.

Under the University's tenure system, Dominguez's appointment must be reviewed by an ad hoc committee including President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and outside experts in the professor's field. If approved by this committee, the grant of tenure would have to be approved by the Board of Overseers.

Dean Rosovsky was unavailable for comment last night.

"The department's assent has been given," Kilson said. He said the decision had been made at the department's regular meeting the first week of January, though he added he had not attended the meeting.

Robert Shenton, secretary of the Board of Overseers, yesterday said he could release no information about a tenure grant until after the Overseers had come to a decision.

The Harvard University Press recently published Dominguez's exhaustive study of Cuba in the twentieth century, "Cuba: Order and Revolution." The book is "an inquiry into how each of Cuba's three regimes in the past century tried to establish order, each one's claims to power," Dominguez said yesterday.

Dominguez, whose field is Latin American government and American relations with Latin America, teaches Government 20, "Introduction to Comparative Government," in the fall, and courses in Latin American politics and government