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Acquiescence and Resistance: Ortega’s Dictatorship in Nicaragua

https://doi.org/10.14201/alh.20295

Abstract

Recently, Nicaragua has been in the news for the protests against Daniel Ortega. Legitimately elected in 2006, his presidency has headed toward dictatorship. Initially citizens acquiesced, enjoying social programs. When these programs ended, so did acquiescence. The case of Nicaragua shows how an elected president can become a dictator. It also shows the limits of both authoritarianism and acquiescence. Quiet citizens may have only struck a desperate deal, which will end when social programs end.

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Acquiescence and Resistance: Ortega’s Dictatorship in Nicaragua. (2021). América Latina Hoy , 87, 151-170. https://doi.org/10.14201/alh.20295

Author Biographies

Leslie Elin Anderson

University of Florida

Leslie E. Anderson is a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor of Political Science and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 2017-2018.  She has written The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant, (Hopkins, 1994), Learning Democracy:  Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001, with Lawrence Dodd, (Chicago, 2005), Social Capital in Developing Democracies:  Nicaragua and Argentina Compared, (Cambridge, 2010), Democratization by Institutions:  Argentina’s Transition Years in Comparative Perspective, (Michigan, 2016) and numerous articles.

Lawrence Cloyd Dodd

University of Florida

Lawrence C. Dodd is the Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar in Political Science at the University of Florida. His research interests have spanned the study of cabinet formation and maintenance in parliamentary democracies; cycles of electoral, organizational and regime change in the U. S. Congress; and democratization in Latin America.

Won-ho Park

Seoul National University

Won-ho Park is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University and is Secretary of Research for the Korean Political Science Association. His research interests include quantitative methods, voting behavior, comparative elections, and public opinion.  His recent work appears in Electoral Studies, Korean Political Science Review, and Peace Studies, some written in Korean. 

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