Author: Alejandro Martínez Cuenca Publisher: South End Press ISBN: 9780896084315 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 200
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In light of the Sandinistas' 1990 electoral defeat, Sandinista economist Martinez Cuenca offers this frank and engaging assessment of the Nicaraguan revolution and its prospects for the future.
Author: Andrew Zimbalist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429714106 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 202
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This book explores whether the Sandinista 'mixed economy'—a 'transitional' mixed economy—could have been stable if the Sandinistas had been able to pursue their industrialization strategy for a longer period of time. It explains why Nicaragua's mixed economy was stable for almost eleven years.
Author: Andrew Zimbalist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367013448 Category : Languages : en Pages : 239
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This book explores whether the Sandinista 'mixed economy'--a 'transitional' mixed economy--could have been stable if the Sandinistas had been able to pursue their industrialization strategy for a longer period of time. It explains why Nicaragua's mixed economy was stable for almost eleven years.
Author: Harry E. Vanden Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers ISBN: 9781555876821 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 188
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The authors convincingly argue that the democratic tradition and practice that was emerging in Socialist Nicaragua could well have served as a model for other Third World states. After showing why participating democracy didn't triumph, they conclude with an assessment of the 1990 elections and their impact on the future of democracy in Nicaragua. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Bruce Ethan Wright Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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Even in the period following the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990, the revolution of 1979 continues to have a profound effect on the political economy of Nicaragua. Wright's study, which is based on interviews with people from all walks of life -- from government and party officials to academics and campesinos -- as well as on the large volume of literature in both English and Spanish, focuses on the FSLN understanding of the relationships between the state, the party, and mass actors, and the nature of social classes. Wright considers the topics of agrarian reform, the development of mass organizations, the role of labor, and other aspects of the Nicaraguan political economy in order to assess their significance in theoretical as well as practical terms. Book jacket.
Author: Dan La Botz Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004291318 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 429
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This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (‘the Sandinistas’), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN’s lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class.
Author: Gary Prevost Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349275115 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 245
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The Sandinista revolution brought dramatic social, economic and political changes to Nicaragua in the 1980s, but in the wake of the electoral defeat of the FSLN in 1990 the revolution has struggled to survive in the face of challenges from the Chamorro administration, the US government, and the International Monetary Fund. Gains of the revolution in health care, education, Atlantic Coast autonomy, agrarian reform, and other areas have been systematically eroded. However, significant efforts have also been mounted, especially in grass roots organizing and by women's organizations, to protect the revolution's achievements. Through a series of articles based on current research, seven experts on contemporary Nicaragua draw a balance sheet on the gains of Sandinista revolution achieved by 1990 and assess the current status of the revolutionary project.
Author: Victoria González-Rivera Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271068027 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.
Author: Alejandro Martínez Cuenca
Author: Andrew Zimbalist
Author: Andrew Zimbalist
Author: Geske Dijkstra
Author: Harry E. Vanden
Author: Bruce Ethan Wright
Author: Dan La Botz
Author: Elizabeth Dore
Author: Gary Prevost
Author: Victoria González-Rivera