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OverviewDavid Close and Kalowatie Deonandan focus their analysis on the pact struck between the Nicaragua's two main parties, the Liberals and the Sandinistas, which allowed the passage of the constitutional amendments that weakened Nicaragua's basic political institutions. Undoing De... Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Close , Kalowatie Deonandan , Elvira Cuadra , David H. DyePublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780739108086ISBN 10: 0739108085 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 18 August 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Undoing Democracy in Nicaragua Chapter 2 Parties and Pacts in Contemporary Nicaragua Chapter 3 The Assault on Pluralism Chapter 4 Alemán's War on NGO Community Chapter 5 Unholy Alliance: Churce and the State in Nicaragua (1996-2002) Chapter 6 Violence and Personal Insecurity: The Alemán Administration's Authoritarian Response Chapter 7 Patrimonialism and Economic Policy in the Alemán Administration Chapter 8 The External Debt of Nicaragua and the Alemán Liberal Administration: Images and Realities Chapter 9 President Bolaños Runs a Reverse, or How Arnoldo Alemán Wound Up in Prison Chapter 10 The Caudillo is Dead: Long Live the CaudilloReviewsUndoing Democracy is a rare, lucidly written, and coherently edited analysis of post-revolutionary Nicaraguan politics.--Shelley A. McConnell Free and fair elections do not always lead to greater democratization, as this important and readable collection demonstrates. Although the book focuses on Nicaragua, by extension it shows why increasing numbers of citizens in Third Wave democracies have become disillusioned with their political systems. Those who think that democratization is a one-way street should read the powerful evidence collected here; left and right can collaborate to emasculate democracy. -- Mitchell A. Seligson, Vanderbilt University Undoing Democracy is an articulate and carefully constructed collection of essays on the process of decomposition and reversal to authoritarianism in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. The merit of the collection goes beyond the systematic analysis of the pitfalls of the notion of democratic transition in one of the so-called third wave democracies. Undoing Democracy offers profound theoretical contributions to an emerging critical strand of comparative analysis, challenging many of the assumptions and ideological fallacies regarding contemporary democracy, liberalism, globalization and democratization in an era of unilateralism. -- Jorge Nef, University of South Florida This close-up look at democratic decomposition offers a valuable corrective to the simplifying assumptions of an earlier 'transitions to democracy' literature. Comparativists will appreciate the spadework of these knowledgeable country specialists who extract the lessons of Nicaragua's strange odyssey, wherein a revolutionary path to democracy turned into an electoral path to strongman rule. An important cautionary tale of how neoliberal economics and clientelistic habits of the political class derailed incipient democratization. -- Richard Stahler-Sholk, Eastern Michigan University Undoing Democracy, filled with strong contributions from noted Nicaragua experts, provides an invaluable record of the erosion of democracy during the Aleman administration. It reveals how re-emergent caudillo politics and the Liberal-Sandinista pact undermined Nicaragua's democratic substance despite the retention of democratic forms. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua and the fate of Third-Wave democracies. -- John A. Booth, University of North Texas Undoing Democracy is a rare, lucidly written, and coherently edited analysis of post-revolutionary Nicaraguan politics. -- Shelley A. McConnell, Senior Associate Director of the Americas Program at The Carter Center This important collection of ten articles focused on the administration of Arnoldo Aleman reminds us that there is nothing automatic or unidirectional about the transition to democracy. -- Judith Adler Hellman, York University; author of The World of Mexican Migrants Even though the empirical examples in Undoing Democracy deal with Nicaragua in the late 1990s, the theoretical insights in this book can be applied and tested in other parts of the world, from fledgling and aspiring democracies (such as Iraq) to older experiments in democratic transition (of which there are many examples). * Latin American Politics and Society * Undoing Democracy is an articulate and carefully constructed collection of essays on the process of decomposition and reversal to authoritarianism in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. The merit of the collection goes beyond the systematic analysis of the pitfalls of the notion of democratic transition in one of the so-called third wave democracies. Undoing Democracy offers profound theoretical contributions to an emerging critical strand of comparative analysis, challenging many of the assumptions and ideological fallacies regarding contemporary democracy, liberalism, globalization and democratization in an era of unilateralism.--Nef, Jorge Author InformationDavid Close is professor of political science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Kalowatie Deonandan is associate professor of political science and director of the International Studies Program of the University of Saskatchewan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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