Class, State, and Revolution in Central America
Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6283973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manus I Midlarsky, Kenneth D Roberts (University of Colorado Boulder), Kenneth Roberts (0000-0002-8033-0864, Center for International Relations and Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-193 |
| Publication date | 1985-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002785029002001 |
| OpenAlex | W2117070893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 27 |
Models of revolutionary behavior in Central America are developed that rely initially on the distribution of landholdings. The scarcity of arable land—as in El Salvador, with its high population density—is suggested to result in high inequality, acute class polarization, and class-based redistributive revolutionary movements. A lesser degree of land scarcity, as in Nicaragua, should lead to a diminished extent of inequality, less acute class polarization, and multiclass, nonredistributive revolutionary coalitions. The behaviors of revolutionary movements in both El Salvador and Nicaragua conform to expectations. In turn, three types of state-class relations are developed. These are instrumentalist states in which the state is used as an instrument of control by the dominant class (El Salvador); personalist states in which a caudillo-type leader rules in large measure, independent of the dominant class (Nicaragua); and autonomous institutional states (Mexico), which have developed infrastructures of party and/ or government
Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Instrumentalism · Market economy · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Population · Scarcity · Sociology · State (computer science · Demography · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Political Economy and Marxism · World Systems and Global Transformations
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Political Movements and Violence in Central America
Government spending reallocations and inequality
Taking Power
The inequality-conflict nexus re-examined
Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
Thirty Years of Transformation in the Agrarian Structure of El Salvador, 1961–1991
Elites, Elite Settlements, and Revolutionary Movements in Latin America, 1950-1980
Land invasions and land reform in Basilicata, Italy
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A congruence analysis of the inequality–conflict nexus
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The 'development state' in Latin America
Income Inequality among LDCs
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Land Inequality and Political Violence
Inequality and Insurgency
A Theory of Third World Social Revolutions
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The capitalist state
From mobilization to revolution
Nicaragua
Inevitable revolutions
The Functions of Social Conflict
Dependent Development
Structures of Domination and Peasant Movements in Latin America
The Revolutionary Potential of Peasants in Latin America
Dictators Never Die
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Decision-Making in an Authoritarian Regime
Inequality and Instability
A theory of revolution
Collective Violence
Scarcity and Inequality
What Makes Peasants Revolutionary
States and Social Revolutions
Landlord and Peasant in China
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The Revolutionary Potential of Peasants in Latin America
The End and the Beginning
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Structures of Domination and Peasant Movements in Latin America
El Salvador in Transition
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2025 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |