Class Struggle and Democratisation in Central America: Historical Trajectories and Legacies

Central America displayed extraordinary political divergence in the twentieth century, from the early liberal democracy of Costa Rica to the persistent dictatorships of El Salvador and Guatemala, and the unique Sandinista Revolution of Nicaragua. Despite the emphasis on the later regional convergence around a common model of liberal democracy and economic neoliberalism, political systems continued to exhibit notable contrasts in the scope of democratisation, the configuration of party syste...