The Transition To Democracy In Spain

Author : Andrea Bonime-blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367288525
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spain's Transition to Democracy written by Andrea Bonime-blanc and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of longtime dictator Generalissimo Franco in 1975, King Juan Carlos acted decisively to institute a dramatic change in Spanish politics. By appointing an unknown Christian democrat, Adolfo Suarez, as prime minister, the king paved the way for the transformation of Spain from an authoritarian regime to a liberal democracy. Central to this singular transition was the formulation of the new Spanish constitution, an unusual process of political give and take. Dr. Bonime-Blanc examines the evolutionary phases of the constitution-making process, describing the conflicts, maneuvers, and compromises of the principal political players involved. Analyzing the negotiations and their constitutional results, she pinpoints the factors that make a successful transition to democracy possible. In her closing chapter, the author illustrates the lessons of the Spanish case and their practical implications for future transitions to democracy.

Author : Andrea Bonime-Blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429307270
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spain's Transition to Democracy written by Andrea Bonime-Blanc and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of longtime dictator Generalissimo Franco in 1975, King Juan Carlos acted decisively to institute a dramatic change in Spanish politics. By appointing an unknown Christian democrat, Adolfo Suarez, as prime minister, the king paved the way for the transformation of Spain from an authoritarian regime to a liberal democracy. Central to this singular transition was the formulation of the new Spanish constitution, an unusual process of political give and take. Dr. Bonime-Blanc examines the evolutionary phases of the constitution-making process, describing the conflicts, maneuvers, and compromises of the principal political players involved. Analyzing the negotiations and their constitutional results, she pinpoints the factors that make a successful transition to democracy possible. In her closing chapter, the author illustrates the lessons of the Spanish case and their practical implications for future transitions to democracy.

Author : Paloma Aguilar Fernández
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571817570
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Amnesia written by Paloma Aguilar Fernández and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a rich variety of sources, this book explores how the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War influenced the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's death in 1975.

Author : Diego Muro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136852239
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition written by Diego Muro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma. Its simplest formulation could be: was it the pressure from below, i.e. the organized working classes, students and neighbors associations that triggered political change; or was the elite settlement reached by the regime soft-liners and the moderate sectors of the democratic opposition that established it? This new and innovative volume appraises the movement towards a more democratic Spain from a variety of important perspectives; the collection of essays sheds light on the wide range of crucial processes, institutions and actors involved in the political transformation that operated in the Spanish instance of the Third Wave of democratization. By making comparisons to other democratic transitions, synthesizing the ideas of several leading Spanish History scholars, as well as incorporating new voices involved in creating the directions of research to come, The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition offers a thorough and vital look at this key period in contemporary Spanish history, taking stock of critical lessons to be gleaned from the Spanish Transition, and pointing the way toward its future as a democratic nation.

Author : José María Maravall
Publisher : London : Croom Helm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transition to Democracy in Spain written by José María Maravall and published by London : Croom Helm. This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diego Muro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198826931
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics written by Diego Muro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates, as well as a foundation for future research. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences"--

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : A E I Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transition to Democracy in Spain and Portugal written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N/A

Author : Laura Desfor Edles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521628853
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain written by Laura Desfor Edles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical to the success of the transition. In addition to uncovering underlying processes of symbolization, she shows that politico-historical transitions can themselves be understood as ritual processes, involving as they do phases and symbols of separation, liminality and re-aggregation.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004483225
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disremembering the Dictatorship written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation have been an object of reflection for a number of film directors and fiction writers, who have probed the return of the repressed under spectral conditions. Above all, this book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents and an open field for encounters with different, possibly divergent, and necessarily fragmented recollections. The pact of the Transition could not entirely disguise the naturalization of a society made of winners and losers, nor could it ensure the consolidation of amnesia by political agents and by the tools that create hegemony by shaping opinion. Spanish society is haunted by the specters of a past it has tried to surmount by denying it. It seems unlikely that it can rid itself of its ghosts without in the process undermining the democracy it sought to legitimate through the erasure of memories and the drowning of witnesses' voices in the cacaphony of triumphant modernization.

Author : J. Hopkin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333717097
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Party Formation and Democratic Transition in Spain written by J. Hopkin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-01-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abrupt collapse and dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the party which governed Spain during the crucial period of the transition to democracy (1977-82), is one of the most extraordinary events in the history of European party politics. This book develops an original theoretical framework for the study of party institutionalisation, and draws on a wide range of empirical sources to offer new insights into the causes of the UCD's collapse.