The state, the peasantry and the Sandinista revolution
分析了尼加拉瓜1979年革命后桑地诺土地政策从国家主导转向灵活惠农的过程，解释了贫困农民赋权、选举教训和反政府武装压力如何推动这一转变，适合研究革命后土地改革与农民政治参与的学者。
Nicaragua's 1979 revolution created the first political opening in the countryside, sparking mass mobilisation and greatly weakening landlord power within rural civil society. Sandinista agrarian policy began with a limited, state‐centred land reform, but shifted by the mid‐1980s to a much more flexible process, benefiting large numbers of co‐operative members and smallholders. Factors which explain this change include: the empowerment of poor peasants, many of them war veterans; lessons drawn by the FSLN from the 1984 election results; and the Army's awareness of the need to use agrarian policy more effectively to weaken the contras. Thus, in spite of the economic crisis, the nationalist response to external aggression combined with the consolidation of relatively autonomous mass organisations reinforced the role of the rural poor in the evolving political system.