Leslie Elin Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4173896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Elin Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie Elin |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3778-8853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Aquiescencia y resistencia
Recientemente, Nicaragua ha sido noticia por las protestas contra Daniel Ortega. Elegido legítimamente en 2006, su presidencia se ha encaminado hacia una dictadura. Inicialmente los ciudadanos consintieron, disfrutando de sus programas sociales. Cuando estos programas terminaron, también lo hizo la aquiescencia. El caso de Nicaragua muestra cómo un presidente electo puede convertirse en un dictador. También muestra los límites tanto del autoritar…
Response to Cynthia McClintock’s review of Democratization by Institutions
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Electoral competition and democratic decline in Nicaragua
Between the 1980s and 2006 Nicaragua was a competitive democracy where parties of the left and right won national presidential elections and relinquished power when their terms ended. More recently the quality of Nicaragua’s democracy has deteriorated. This change is due partly to autocratic behaviour by the elected leftist president, Daniel Ortega. But democratic decline is also the result of factional divisions and vague, outmoded policy commit…
International Contributions to Nicaraguan Democracy
As democracy develops in poor countries around the world, wealthier countries have sought to enhance social development and democratization through foreign aid. Although the national state has historically been the recipient of aid, some donors have begun to consider donations to local governments. If local government is democratic, it may deliver aid more immediately than does national government. The question relates to concerns in comparative …
Democratization and Oppositional Consciousness in Argentina
Many countries recently have adopted formal democratic institutions and processes, such as the use of regular elections for national political offices. Many citizens, suffering from poverty and extreme social inequality, nonetheless feel politically excluded and dissatisfied. They sometimes turn to collective action and protest to help correct perceived injustices, yet protest often is rendered ineffective by the long-standing authoritarian habit…
Social Capital in Developing Democracies
Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson's Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that in Nicaragua, strong, positive, bridging social capital has enhanced democratization while in Argentina the legacy of Peronism has created bonding and …
The Problem of Single-Party Predominance in an Unconsolidated Democracy
Parties can be a crucial to democratic function but not all parties or party systems are democratic. Some parties are fully competitive within a pluralist system while others, notably hegemonic parties, are antithetical to democracy. Between competitive, pluralist party systems and hegemonic party systems lie predominant party systems. These are compatible with democracy where democracy is fully consolidated but inhibit democratic consolidation i…
Nicaragua
This essay examines Nicaragua's municipal elections of November 2008 against the backdrop of Daniel Ortega's return to the nation's presidency in 2006. While Ortega has engaged in authoritarian practices, municipal-level Sandinista politicians have helped foster a vibrant local democracy. Engaging citizens in local problem-solving, they have dominated municipal elections since 2001, winning most major municipalities again in 2008. Sandinista succ…
Comportamiento electoral y democracia en Nicaragua
En los Estados Unidos y otros países de democracia establecida existen teorías de opción electoral (vote choice) para explicar cómo y por qué los votantes toman decisiones electorales. Éstas nos explican cómo votan los ciudadanos, incluso qué peso dan a las evaluaciones de los candidatos, la económica, y otros factores en sus decisiones de voto. Conforme América Latina se democratiza y algunas naciones en el continente cuentan con varios años de …
Fascists or Revolutionaries? Left and Right Politics of the Rural Poor
This article compares rural support for authoritarian populism in the new democracies in western Europe and Latin America. Literature on mass-based peasant revolutions sees the rural poor as revolutionaries, but an earlier, Marxist view saw them as counter-revolutionary. What can we expect of rural people in new democracies? The article examines four cases of rural support for authoritarian populism and contrasts them with patterns of peasant lef…
The Authoritarian Executive? Horizontal and Vertical Accountability in Nicaragua
This article uses empirical evidence from Nicaragua to examine Guillermo O'Donnell's argument that new democracies often become undemocratic delegative democracies and that vertical accountability is not enough to stop such encroaching authoritarianism. While events in the last five years have focused attention on illegal executive behavior by former president Alemán, Nicaragua's democracy actually has experienced authoritarian presidencies under…
Learning Democracy
Idealism, Impatience, and Pessimism
Ordinary People In Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry And The Breakdown Of Democracy. By Nancy Bermeo. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 288. $19.95 paper.) Fujimori's Coup And The Breakdown Of Democracy In Latin America. By Charles D. Kenney. (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2004. Pp. 379. $30.00 paper.) Democracy In Latin America. By George Philip. (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2003. $62.95 cloth, $27.95 paper.) Incomplet…
A Report on the 19th Congress of the International Political Science Association
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Post-socialist democratization
Of Wild and Cultivated Politics
Nicaragua Votes
In November 2001, Nicaraguans voted in their country's fourth national election since the Somoza regime was overthrown in 1979 and the third since the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990. For the third straight time, they chose a conservative candidate who espoused democratic liberties. In 2001 Nicaraguan voters had three choices for the presidency, one from each of three long-established parties. Outgoing …
The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America
Thorton Hogan Anderson
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Between Quiescence and Rebellion Among the Peasantry
This essay is a theoretical and empirical test of two major theories of peasant political action, James Scott's Moral Economy of the Peasant and Samuel Popkin's The Rational Peasant. The essay draws primarily upon testimony taken from peasant activists involved in a wide range of different forms of political action. The essay goes on to operationalize core elements from each of these two theories and to compare them statistically to determine whi…
Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua
Neutrality and Bias in the 1990 Nicaraguan Preelection Polls
The 1990 democratic election in Sandinista Nicaragua attracted international attention.' Among scholars of Nicaragua, one of the most surprising aspects of that election was that so many of the publicized preelection polls incorrectly predicted the outcome. Most polls published in both the United States and Nicaragua forecast a Sandinista victory, but, in fact, the Sandinistas suffered a resounding defeat.2 Many election watchers were surprised b…
Reformism and Radicalism among Peasants
This study tests a well-known and widely accepted theory of agrarian revolution (Paige 1975) using data that precisely fit the categorization scheme upon which Paige's model rests. In an effort to hold constant the influences of the state and to focus upon the structural variables that Paige says are determinant, the study draws upon data on peasant political attitudes and behaviors in a single country, Costa Rica. The findings suggest serious li…
Agrarian Politics and Revolution
This essay uses three crucial cases to test predictions made in Jeffery Paige's Agrarian Revolution. Relying upon structure to explain political outcome, Paige predicts that peasants will be political conservatives who engage in reformist politics but never radical action, much less revolution. The cases illustrate however, that peasant political behavior varies considerably, being reformist, radical, or revolutionary depending upon the perspecti…
Surprises and secrets
Post-Materialism from a Peasant Perspective
Although the post-materialist study of political motivation focuses upon affluent political actors in more developed countries, it has important implications for political motivation among the poor and in less developed countries. To date these have not been addressed by students of post-materialism. If the affluent who no longer face economic insecurity take political action for value-oriented and idealistic reasons, the implication is that the …
Post-socialist democratization
Nicaragua
This essay examines Nicaragua's municipal elections of November 2008 against the backdrop of Daniel Ortega's return to the nation's presidency in 2006. While Ortega has engaged in authoritarian practices, municipal-level Sandinista politicians have helped foster a vibrant local democracy. Engaging citizens in local problem-solving, they have dominated municipal elections since 2001, winning most major municipalities again in 2008. Sandinista succ…
The Authoritarian Executive? Horizontal and Vertical Accountability in Nicaragua
This article uses empirical evidence from Nicaragua to examine Guillermo O'Donnell's argument that new democracies often become undemocratic delegative democracies and that vertical accountability is not enough to stop such encroaching authoritarianism. While events in the last five years have focused attention on illegal executive behavior by former president Alemán, Nicaragua's democracy actually has experienced authoritarian presidencies under…
The Problem of Single-Party Predominance in an Unconsolidated Democracy
Parties can be a crucial to democratic function but not all parties or party systems are democratic. Some parties are fully competitive within a pluralist system while others, notably hegemonic parties, are antithetical to democracy. Between competitive, pluralist party systems and hegemonic party systems lie predominant party systems. These are compatible with democracy where democracy is fully consolidated but inhibit democratic consolidation i…
Alternative Action in Costa Rica
As the developing world modernises and traditionally excluded groups seek to take part in their societies, the political activity of the peasantry assumes an ever-increasing importance. Yet most scholarship has focused on the more spectacular forms of political action such as rebellion. In recent years some scholars have turned their attention to the other extreme of everyday resistance,1but such contributions are still limited in number. This pa…
Fascists or Revolutionaries? Left and Right Politics of the Rural Poor
This article compares rural support for authoritarian populism in the new democracies in western Europe and Latin America. Literature on mass-based peasant revolutions sees the rural poor as revolutionaries, but an earlier, Marxist view saw them as counter-revolutionary. What can we expect of rural people in new democracies? The article examines four cases of rural support for authoritarian populism and contrasts them with patterns of peasant lef…
Nicaragua Votes
In November 2001, Nicaraguans voted in their country's fourth national election since the Somoza regime was overthrown in 1979 and the third since the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990. For the third straight time, they chose a conservative candidate who espoused democratic liberties. In 2001 Nicaraguan voters had three choices for the presidency, one from each of three long-established parties. Outgoing …
Reformism and Radicalism among Peasants
This study tests a well-known and widely accepted theory of agrarian revolution (Paige 1975) using data that precisely fit the categorization scheme upon which Paige's model rests. In an effort to hold constant the influences of the state and to focus upon the structural variables that Paige says are determinant, the study draws upon data on peasant political attitudes and behaviors in a single country, Costa Rica. The findings suggest serious li…
Electoral competition and democratic decline in Nicaragua
Between the 1980s and 2006 Nicaragua was a competitive democracy where parties of the left and right won national presidential elections and relinquished power when their terms ended. More recently the quality of Nicaragua’s democracy has deteriorated. This change is due partly to autocratic behaviour by the elected leftist president, Daniel Ortega. But democratic decline is also the result of factional divisions and vague, outmoded policy commit…
International Contributions to Nicaraguan Democracy
As democracy develops in poor countries around the world, wealthier countries have sought to enhance social development and democratization through foreign aid. Although the national state has historically been the recipient of aid, some donors have begun to consider donations to local governments. If local government is democratic, it may deliver aid more immediately than does national government. The question relates to concerns in comparative …
Of Wild and Cultivated Politics
Neutrality and Bias in the 1990 Nicaraguan Preelection Polls
The 1990 democratic election in Sandinista Nicaragua attracted international attention.' Among scholars of Nicaragua, one of the most surprising aspects of that election was that so many of the publicized preelection polls incorrectly predicted the outcome. Most polls published in both the United States and Nicaragua forecast a Sandinista victory, but, in fact, the Sandinistas suffered a resounding defeat.2 Many election watchers were surprised b…
Agrarian Politics and Revolution
This essay uses three crucial cases to test predictions made in Jeffery Paige's Agrarian Revolution. Relying upon structure to explain political outcome, Paige predicts that peasants will be political conservatives who engage in reformist politics but never radical action, much less revolution. The cases illustrate however, that peasant political behavior varies considerably, being reformist, radical, or revolutionary depending upon the perspecti…
Surprises and secrets
Mixed Blessings
One of the most urgent issues in contemporary Latin America is the popular struggle against rural poverty. Because Latin American states have failed to alleviate rural impoverishment, the poor have undertaken to solve their own problems. One fruitful way of improving their conditions has proved to be forming grass-roots peasant organizations outside state auspices. This approach, however, can bear fruit only under a democratic regime or in states…
Between Quiescence and Rebellion Among the Peasantry
This essay is a theoretical and empirical test of two major theories of peasant political action, James Scott's Moral Economy of the Peasant and Samuel Popkin's The Rational Peasant. The essay draws primarily upon testimony taken from peasant activists involved in a wide range of different forms of political action. The essay goes on to operationalize core elements from each of these two theories and to compare them statistically to determine whi…
Post-Materialism from a Peasant Perspective
Although the post-materialist study of political motivation focuses upon affluent political actors in more developed countries, it has important implications for political motivation among the poor and in less developed countries. To date these have not been addressed by students of post-materialism. If the affluent who no longer face economic insecurity take political action for value-oriented and idealistic reasons, the implication is that the …
Alternative Action in Costa Rica
As the developing world modernises and traditionally excluded groups seek to take part in their societies, the political activity of the peasantry assumes an ever-increasing importance. Yet most scholarship has focused on the more spectacular forms of political action such as rebellion. In recent years some scholars have turned their attention to the other extreme of everyday resistance,1but such contributions are still limited in number. This pa…
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Mixed Blessings
One of the most urgent issues in contemporary Latin America is the popular struggle against rural poverty. Because Latin American states have failed to alleviate rural impoverishment, the poor have undertaken to solve their own problems. One fruitful way of improving their conditions has proved to be forming grass-roots peasant organizations outside state auspices. This approach, however, can bear fruit only under a democratic regime or in states…
Surprises and secrets
Managing the Commanding Heights
Managing the Commanding Heights
Agrarian Politics and Revolution
This essay uses three crucial cases to test predictions made in Jeffery Paige's Agrarian Revolution. Relying upon structure to explain political outcome, Paige predicts that peasants will be political conservatives who engage in reformist politics but never radical action, much less revolution. The cases illustrate however, that peasant political behavior varies considerably, being reformist, radical, or revolutionary depending upon the perspecti…
Neutrality and Bias in the 1990 Nicaraguan Preelection Polls
The 1990 democratic election in Sandinista Nicaragua attracted international attention.' Among scholars of Nicaragua, one of the most surprising aspects of that election was that so many of the publicized preelection polls incorrectly predicted the outcome. Most polls published in both the United States and Nicaragua forecast a Sandinista victory, but, in fact, the Sandinistas suffered a resounding defeat.2 Many election watchers were surprised b…
Reformism and Radicalism among Peasants
This study tests a well-known and widely accepted theory of agrarian revolution (Paige 1975) using data that precisely fit the categorization scheme upon which Paige's model rests. In an effort to hold constant the influences of the state and to focus upon the structural variables that Paige says are determinant, the study draws upon data on peasant political attitudes and behaviors in a single country, Costa Rica. The findings suggest serious li…
Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua
Between Quiescence and Rebellion Among the Peasantry
This essay is a theoretical and empirical test of two major theories of peasant political action, James Scott's Moral Economy of the Peasant and Samuel Popkin's The Rational Peasant. The essay draws primarily upon testimony taken from peasant activists involved in a wide range of different forms of political action. The essay goes on to operationalize core elements from each of these two theories and to compare them statistically to determine whi…
Thorton Hogan Anderson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America
Of Wild and Cultivated Politics
Nicaragua Votes
In November 2001, Nicaraguans voted in their country's fourth national election since the Somoza regime was overthrown in 1979 and the third since the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990. For the third straight time, they chose a conservative candidate who espoused democratic liberties. In 2001 Nicaraguan voters had three choices for the presidency, one from each of three long-established parties. Outgoing …
A Report on the 19th Congress of the International Political Science Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Post-socialist democratization
Learning Democracy
Idealism, Impatience, and Pessimism
Ordinary People In Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry And The Breakdown Of Democracy. By Nancy Bermeo. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 288. $19.95 paper.) Fujimori's Coup And The Breakdown Of Democracy In Latin America. By Charles D. Kenney. (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2004. Pp. 379. $30.00 paper.) Democracy In Latin America. By George Philip. (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2003. $62.95 cloth, $27.95 paper.) Incomplet…
Fascists or Revolutionaries? Left and Right Politics of the Rural Poor
This article compares rural support for authoritarian populism in the new democracies in western Europe and Latin America. Literature on mass-based peasant revolutions sees the rural poor as revolutionaries, but an earlier, Marxist view saw them as counter-revolutionary. What can we expect of rural people in new democracies? The article examines four cases of rural support for authoritarian populism and contrasts them with patterns of peasant lef…
The Authoritarian Executive? Horizontal and Vertical Accountability in Nicaragua
This article uses empirical evidence from Nicaragua to examine Guillermo O'Donnell's argument that new democracies often become undemocratic delegative democracies and that vertical accountability is not enough to stop such encroaching authoritarianism. While events in the last five years have focused attention on illegal executive behavior by former president Alemán, Nicaragua's democracy actually has experienced authoritarian presidencies under…
The Problem of Single-Party Predominance in an Unconsolidated Democracy
Parties can be a crucial to democratic function but not all parties or party systems are democratic. Some parties are fully competitive within a pluralist system while others, notably hegemonic parties, are antithetical to democracy. Between competitive, pluralist party systems and hegemonic party systems lie predominant party systems. These are compatible with democracy where democracy is fully consolidated but inhibit democratic consolidation i…
Nicaragua
This essay examines Nicaragua's municipal elections of November 2008 against the backdrop of Daniel Ortega's return to the nation's presidency in 2006. While Ortega has engaged in authoritarian practices, municipal-level Sandinista politicians have helped foster a vibrant local democracy. Engaging citizens in local problem-solving, they have dominated municipal elections since 2001, winning most major municipalities again in 2008. Sandinista succ…
Comportamiento electoral y democracia en Nicaragua
En los Estados Unidos y otros países de democracia establecida existen teorías de opción electoral (vote choice) para explicar cómo y por qué los votantes toman decisiones electorales. Éstas nos explican cómo votan los ciudadanos, incluso qué peso dan a las evaluaciones de los candidatos, la económica, y otros factores en sus decisiones de voto. Conforme América Latina se democratiza y algunas naciones en el continente cuentan con varios años de …
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