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The Nicaragua protest crisis in 2018-2019: assessing the logic of government responses to protests
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Abstract Despite constant monitoring, we lack a good explanation for the 2018-2019 protest crisis in Nicaragua. The escalation of protests, repression, duration, and the death toll are surprising. Applying a novel political and economic cost framework, we benchmark Nicaragua's historical and recent political... mehr
Despite constant monitoring, we lack a good explanation for the 2018-2019 protest crisis in Nicaragua. The escalation of protests, repression, duration, and the death toll are surprising. Applying a novel political and economic cost framework, we benchmark Nicaragua's historical and recent political protests and explain the Ortega administration's responses, thus providing a rich case (with comparative data for context) that makes sense of this extraordinary period of protest. The empirical analysis buttresses our qualitative case study of protest motivations and tactics and extreme state violence that define four phases of the conflict. The combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses creates one of the first robust studies of protest-response dynamics of this protest crisis. We conclude that these protests are unique with respect to previous protests in the country and the region and that government repression was a logical response in some phases but was inconsistently applied.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nicaragua; Protest; Repression; Gewalt; Innenpolitik; politischer Konflikt; Lateinamerika
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Gesellschaftliche/Politische Bewegung; Konfliktverlauf; Ortega Saavedra; Politischer Protest; Unterdrückung/Repressalien
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 55-83
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 14 (2022) 1
ISSN
1868-4890
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)