Making Democratic Citizens in Spain [electronic resource] : Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-78 /
Radcliff, P.author.
A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain's democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the authoritarian state and made the building blocks of a future democratic citizenship.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Glossary; Introduction; 1 Dictatorship and Civil Society: Explaining the Roots of a New Associational Milieu; 2 "Measuring" Civil Society: The Scope and Vitality of the New Associational Milieu; 3 Gender and the Role of Women in the Associational Milieu; 4 "What is a Family Association?": The Civic Discourse of Familiarismo; 5 Women and Familiarismo: The Civic Discourse of the Homemaker Associations
6 The Civic Discourse of the Neighborhood Associations of Madrid: From Community Improvement to "Citizen Movement"7 The Civic Community in Practice: Family and Neighborhood Associations as "Schools of Democracy"; Conclusion/Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-405) and index.
A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain's democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the authoritarian state and made the building blocks of a future democratic citizenship.
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