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International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2005 17(4):499-503; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edh112
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International Journal of Public Opinion Research Vol. 17 No. 4 © The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

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Connie de Boer

University of Amsterdam

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Leslie E. Anderson and Lawrence C. Dodd (2005). Learning Democracy. Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990–2001. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 336 pp., ISBN 0–226–01972–1.

Through the analysis of the 1990, 1996, and the 2001 Nicaraguan elections, the authors of this book chart the coming of democracy in a powerless, illiterate, and impoverished nation with a long tradition of authoritarian rule and foreign domination as was the case in Nicaragua. In the first of these elections Nicaraguan citizens rejected the presidential candidate of its socialist-revolutionary government in favor of his more conservative opponent. Thereafter, the citizens reaffirmed their preference for democratic conservatism in the elections that followed. An explanation for these developments is sought by the examination of citizens’ attitudes and voting intentions in the three election campaigns. Public opinion surveys for these elections clarify why citizens voted as they did. The electoral outcomes are placed . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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