Abstract
This article examines the political interactions in Nicaragua between the NGO-based feminist movement and government institutions on the issue of women's health in the mid-1990s. Analysis of the Nicaraguan feminist movement yields insight into the ability of NGO-based movements to influence state policy and into the strengths and limits of using NGOs as an institutional base on which to build a social movement. By defining the mechanisms of state-NGO interactions and analyzing the democratic potential of an NGO-based social movement, this article contributes to understanding of both NGOs and social movements in the context of newly democratic governments.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 75-102 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Latin American Research Review |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1999 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I am grateful to the Tinker Foundation and the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for partial financial support for this research. A previous version of this article was presented to the American Political Science Association, 28-31 August 1997, in Washington, D.C. For helpful comments on that paper, I would like to thank Karen Kampwirth. I would also like to thank Jonathan Hartlyn and Evelyne Huber for their suggestions on prior drafts of this study and the three anonymous LARR reviewers for their thoughtful comments.
