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The many faces of Sandinista democracy

Author: Katherine Hoyt
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, ©1997.
Series: Monographs in international studies., Latin America series ;, no. 27.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Taking power in Nicaragua in 1979 as a revolutionary party, the Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN) was willing to put its fate in the hands of the Nicaraguan people twice, in 1984 and 1990. The party wrote a democratic constitution and then, remarkably, accepted the decision of the majority by relinquishing power upon its defeat in the 1990 elections. Hoyt examines the conflicts surrounding the development of ideas  Read more...
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Hoyt, Katherine.
Many faces of Sandinista democracy.
Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, c1997
(OCoLC)609360609
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Katherine Hoyt
ISBN: 0896801977 9780896801974
OCLC Number: 35450521
Description: ix, 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. The Setting --
2. Political Democracy? --
3. Participatory Democracy in Action --
4. New Radical Thought on Participatory Democracy --
5. Economic Democracy: The Revolutionary Years --
6. Economic Democracy: The Search for Alternatives to Neo-liberalism --
7. Democracy in the FSLN Party --
8. Concluding Thoughts.
Series Title: Monographs in international studies., Latin America series ;, no. 27.
Responsibility: Katherine Hoyt.
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Taking power in Nicaragua in 1979 as a revolutionary party, the Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN) was willing to put its fate in the hands of the Nicaraguan people twice, in 1984 and 1990. The party wrote a democratic constitution and then, remarkably, accepted the decision of the majority by relinquishing power upon its defeat in the 1990 elections. Hoyt examines the conflicts surrounding the development of ideas within the FSLN as well as the strengths and weaknesses of its rare combination of democratic and vanguard principles. The Many Faces of Sandinista Democracy explores conflicts involving different visions of economic democracy, as well as new radical thought on participatory democracy. Hoyt brings to an international audience for the first time a study of the ideas of several Nicaraguan thinkers. A postscript deals with the aftermath of the 1996 elections, in which the Sandinistas failed to return to power.

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