 | ISBN: 978-1-55587-643-2 $25.00 | |
| ISBN: 978-1-62637-140-8 $25.00 | ||
| 1999/244 pages/LC: 98-27844 | ||
In 1990, Nicaraguans voted out the revolutionary Sandinista regime and replaced it with the conservative government of President Violeta Chamorro. Chamorro's term of office was marked by constitutional, economic, partisan, and social conflict, as her administration attempted to replace the revolutionary system with representative government and market economics.
Close examines these conflicts and assesses their impact on Nicaragua's political actors and governmental institutions. He concludes with an analysis of the 1996 Nicaraguan elections and with a provocative exploration of the impact of the revolution on Nicaragua today.
"David Close has carefully recaptured the 1990-96 period in Nicaragua.... The Nicaraguan case will continue to be a source of important comparative lessons, and this book makes a valuable contribution to understanding some of the complexities of regime transition."—Richard Stahler-Sholk, The Americas
"David Close has written a valuable, nuanced study of a country now once again, after a profusion of works in the 1980s, suffering from its traditional scholarly and media neglect. His assessments, moreover, are in the main eminently balanced, sensible and judicious."—Philip Chrimes, International Affairs