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10 - Nicaragua

Chronic Instability in Postwar Institutions

from Part III - Institutional Persistence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Rachel A. Schwartz
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
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Chapter 10 returns to the Nicaraguan context, examining the country’s experience of postwar chronic instability within land tenure. It traces how frequent elite political realignments drove the breakdown of the undermining rules governing land titling. After losing the 1990 elections, the FSLN retained considerable influence and pressured the new UNO government into compromise; however, within the property sector, a new decision-making coalition came to dominate – one comprised of UNO technocrats, US government agencies, and international civil society groups dedicated to resolving the confusion and conflict sown by previous policies. As a result, new procedures to formalize land acquisitions emerged. However, this neoliberal coalition was again unsettled with the return of the FSLN to the political scene through a series of bargains with the ruling Liberal Party in the 2000s. The eventual second period of FSLN rule beginning in 2007 has further reconcentrated land and resulted in politically motivated confiscations.

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Undermining the State from Within
The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America
, pp. 219 - 239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Nicaragua
  • Rachel A. Schwartz, University of Oklahoma
  • Book: Undermining the State from Within
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009219907.014
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  • Rachel A. Schwartz, University of Oklahoma
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  • Nicaragua
  • Rachel A. Schwartz, University of Oklahoma
  • Book: Undermining the State from Within
  • Online publication: 23 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009219907.014
Available formats
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