Organic mutations, adaptation and de-institutionalisation in a political party: the case of the Sandinist National Liberation Front, 1980-2006

Authors

  • SALVADOR MARTÍ I PUIG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/45062

Keywords:

Nicaragua, FSLN, Sandinism, Daniel Ortega, change and adaptation

Abstract

After leading a revolutionary process in Nicaragua during the 1980s and losing power in the 1990 elections, the FSLN once again gained power through the elections of November 2006. In order to achieve this, the FSLN had to shed its vanguardista, corporative image. This entailed profound changes in its organisation, symbols and strategies. This article interprets these changes and the type of party created as a result of them (in light of the literature on organisational change within political parties). It argues that the FSLN’s process of «adaptation»; has made the party organisation more personalised and less institutionalised.

Published

2009-02-26

Issue

Section

ARTICLES