The impact of inequality and exclusion in Nicaragua’s political conflict from its independence until the beginning of the 20th century
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2019 |
| Descripción: | In Nicaragua, from Independence until the beginning of the 20th century, the political conflict was marked by violence. This was due to the inability of the warring factions to accept the right of the adversary of becoming the country's government. This plunged the country into a dynamic of mutual exclusion and constant civil wars. The key factors in generating this dynamic were: social stratification, political clientelism and personalism. All of them produce an unequal and excluding access to the political system. Social stratification was based on a hierarchical conception of the social order that caused a deep inequality in distribution of wealth and the ability to participate in politics. In the Nicaraguan political system, this inequality was reproduced in the shape of hierarchical client networks that struggle against each other to control the State. At the same time, those closest to the top of the hierarchy had greater possibilities to influence political decision-making process. As a result, inclusion/exclusion in the political system was regulated first by the position in the social and political hierarchy a personal had and second by the closeness of his ties with the members of the political camp that controlled the state apparatus. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/39629 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/view/39629 |
| Palabra clave: | sistemas sociales estratificación social diferenciación social sistema político guerra civil social systems social stratification social differentiation political system civil war |