Información General

• Autores: Diego Muro (coord.), Gregorio Alonso García (coord.)
• Editores: Routledge Reino Unido
• Año de publicación: 2011
• Colecciones: Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, 18
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9780203834831
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Resumen

• 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.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction

    Gregorio Alonso García, Diego Muro

    págs. 1-14

    

  • Part I. Politics

    • The Spanish Model Revisited

      Richard Günther

      págs. 17-40

      

    • The Selection of an Electoral System: Less Consensus, More Heresthetics

      José Ramón Montero Gibert, Ignacio Lago Peñas

      págs. 41-70

      

    • Interparty Consensus and Intraparty Discipline in Spain’s Transition to Democracy

      Bonnie N. Field

      págs. 71-92

      

  • Part II. Civil Society

    • Radicalism without Representation: on the Character of Social Movements in the Spanish Transition to Democracy

      Pablo Sánchez León

      págs. 95-111

      

    • Children of a Lesser God: the Political and the Pastoral Action of the Spanish Catholic Church

      Gregorio Alonso García

      págs. 113-132

      

  • Part III. Nationalism

    • Salvation by Betrayal: the Left and the Spanish Nation

      Alejandro Quiroga Fernández de Soto

      págs. 135-157

      

    • The Basque Experience of the Transition to Democracy

      Diego Muro

      págs. 159-180

      

  • Part IV. Memory

    • The ‘Pacto de Olvido’

      Carsten Humlebaek

      págs. 183-197

      

    • Cinema and Television in the Transition

      Paul Julian Smith

      págs. 199-211

      

  • Part V. International Dimension

    • The Role of the EEC in the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek Transitions

      José Magone

      págs. 215-234

      

    • Democratizing Spain: Lessons for American Democratic Promotion

      Omar G. Encarnación

      págs. 236-253