Evolution of the perceptions of political elites in fragile democracies: the cases of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua

The text shows data taken from surveys of the parliamentary elites of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua from the 1900s to 2017 on issues of democracy, the rule of law, political actors, their respective parties, parties with which compete, and the relationship between the state and the market in their countries. The objective of the work is to analyze the perceptions of how democratic political systems have evolved in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, which were born as new democracies in a context of crisis and war. The central issues on which the article deals are two: the democratic consolidation in El Salvador, the fragile democratic permanence in Guatemala and the de-democratization in Nicaragua, and the difficult reconciliation between political actors in post-conflict contexts.