Nicaragua : navigating the politics of democracy / David Close.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Close, David, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Nicaragua.

Democracy.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--1979-1990.

Nicaragua.

Nicaragua--Politics and government--1990-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado ; London, [England] : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1970s, Nicaragua has experienced four major regime changes-shifts in its fundamental logic, structure, and operational code of governance. What accounts for such instability? Have other states that transitioned to democracy followed a similar path? Considering these questions, David Close explores the dynamics of Nicaragua's movements toward and away from democracy since 1979.

Contents:

Title Page ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1- Nicaragua's Political Transitions; The Book's Background; Outline of the Book; Notes; Chapter 2- Thinking About Regimes ; Regime; Table 2.1 Current Systems of Regime Classification; Table 2.2 Nicaraguan Regimes, 1979-present; Quality of Democracy; Polarization and Personal Rule; Comparisons; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3- Nicaragua in 1979; Table 3.1 Nicaraguan Political Regimes, 1821-1979; Nicaraguan Politics, 1821-1893; Personal Dictatorship, Instability,and US "Supervision," 1893-1936; Somocismo, 1936-1979

Nicaragua and the Rest of Central AmericaTable 3.2 Central America in January 1979; Notes; Chapter 4- Radical Sandinismo and the Vanguard Regime; The FSLN on the Road to Power; Revolutionary Vanguards; The First Sandinista Regime; Machinery of Government and Those Who Ran It; Table 4.1 Council of State Membership, 1979-1984; Policies and Politics; State-Society Relations; Toward Electoral Democracy; The Regime in Retrospect; Notes; Chapter 5- Electoral Democracy, 1984-2000; Electoral Democracy as a Regime; Table 5.1 1984 Nicaraguan General Election Results

Orthodox Electoral Democracy, 1990-2000Table 5.2 1990 Nicaraguan General Election Results; Table 5.3 1996 Nicaraguan General Election Results; The Balance Sheet of Electoral Democracy, 1984-2000; Notes; Chapter 6- Power-Sharing Duopoly, 2000-2011; Can a Power-Sharing Duopoly Be a Regime?; Introducing the Pact; Designing the Pact; The Duopolistic Regime in Operation, 2000-2011; Table 6.1 2001 Nicaraguan General Election Results; Table 6.2 2006 Nicaraguan General Election Results; Recapping the Duopolistic Regime; Was It a Regime?; Notes

Chapter 7- Dominant Power and Personalistic Rule, 2011-PresentThe New Regime's Traits; Daniel Ortega's Comeback; The Foundations of the New Regime; Table 7.1 Economic Growth in Central America, 2007-2012 (percentages; Table 7.2 Poverty and Extreme Poverty in Central America; The Turning Point in 2008; Table 7.3 2011 Nicaraguan General Election Results; The Third Term and Democracy in Nicaragua; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8- Putting Nicaragua in Perspective; Summarizing Nicaragua's Transitions; To, Through, and from Democracyin Hungary, Russia, and Venezuela; Comparing the Four

Table 8.1 Comparison of per Capita Income, 2014Democratic, Hybrid, or Autocratic?; Table 8.2 Regimes Classified by Organization; Table 8.3 Bertelsmann Political Transformation Index (PTI), Selected Scores by Country; Classifying Nicaragua's Present Regime; Table 8.4 Media Freedom Rankings; Personalism, Political Polarization,and Nicaragua's Recent Transitions; The Takeaways; Notes; Acronyms; Bibliography; Index; Untitled

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-473-2

OCLC:

1334344696