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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Map -- Chapter 1: Why Study Latin America? -- Chapter 2: Why History Matters -- Chapter 3: Latin America's Political Elites -- Chapter 4: Political Traditions, Political Legacies, and Political Institutions: How Personal Rule and Political Violence Figure in Modern Latin American Politics -- Chapter 5: Political Institutions and the Machinery of Government -- Chapter 6: Parties, Elections, and Movements -- Chapter 7: Unconstitutional Political Change: Coups, Insurgencies, and Revolutions as Contentious Politics -- Chapter 8: Democracy and Democratization -- Chapter 9: Political Economy and Economic Policy in Latin America -- Chapter 10: Latin American International Relations -- Chapter 11: Latin America in Comparative Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index

Nicaragua's political transitions -- Thinking about regimes -- Nicaragua in 1979 -- Radical Sandinismo and the vanguard regime -- Electoral democracy, 1984-2000 -- Power-sharing duopoly, 2000-2011 -- Dominant power and personalistic rule, 2011- -- Putting Nicaragua in perspective

Preface; Part One: A Historical Survey; 1. The Meaning of Revolution David Close 2. The Greek Experience and Aristotle's Analysis of Revolution P. A. Howell 3. The Transition from Classical to Modern Times P. A. Howell 4. Liberal Thought About Revolution from Locke to Mazzini P. A. Howell 5. Burke and the Conservative Tradition Carl Bridge 6. Marx, Lenin and Modern Revolutions Norman Wintrop 7. Modernisation and Revolution Bill Brugger and Kate Hannan; Part Two. Case-Studies of Recent Revolutions; 8. The Soviet Union - A Defunct Revolution David Close 9. China - An Interrupted Revolution Bill Brugger 10. Nazi Germany - A Doomed Revolution David Close 11. Guinea-Bissau - Revolution and Development Cherry Gertzel 12. France, May 1968: A New Kind of Revolution? Richard DeAngelis; Index