Why Splinter? Parties that Split from the FSLN, FMLN and URNG
| Autor: | Michael E. Allison |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Authoritarianism 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Democracy 0506 political science Politics Alliance Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Economy Political science Political economy 050602 political science & public administration Ideology media_common Front (military) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Latin American Studies. 48:707-737 |
| ISSN: | 1469-767X 0022-216X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0022216x1600136x |
| Popis: | Following the ends to the civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, the revolutionary coalitions that had led the fight against authoritarian regimes began to fracture. However, none of the splinter parties that broke from the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, and Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit has succeeded on their own as political parties. In this article, I argue that there is no single reason to explain the poor performances of the Democratic Party (PD), the Renovating Movement (MR), and the Democratic Front Party (FDR) in El Salvador, the Sandinista Renovation Movement (Renovate-MRS) and the Movement to Rescue Sandinismo (Rescue-MRS) in Nicaragua, and the New Nation Alliance (ANN) in Guatemala. However, their limited financial resources, alliances with non-revolutionary centrist and centre-right parties, and voter tendency to overlook internal ideological and personal debates within the original political parties, especially the FSLN and FMLN, have not helped. |
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