Title: Spanish and Latin American transitions to democracy /
Authors: Waisman, Carlos H. 1943-; Rein, Raanan, 1960-
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Democratization Spain.; Democratization Latin America.; Spain Politics and government; Spain Economic conditions; Latin America Politics and government; Latin America Economic conditions
Contents: Introduction. Latin American transitions in the Spanish mirror / Carlos H. Waisman. -- Institutional and cultural dimensions of the Spanish transition. Imagined memory as the weight of the past: political transitions in Spain / Enric Ucelay-da Cal -- Key factors to understand the Spanish transition / José María Marín Arce -- Regions, nations and nationalities: on the process of territorial identity-building during Spain's democratic transition and consolidation / Xosé-Manoel Núñez -- Political transition in Spain: state and Basque nationalism / Ander Gurrutxaga Abad -- Democracy and terrorism in Spain / Juan Avilés -- Between past and future: children and the contest over cultural and political identity during the Spanish transition to democracy, Salamanca, 1977-1979 / Tamar Groves. Institutional and cultural dimensions of the Latin American transitions. Representative democracy and effective institutions: democratic practice in contemporary Latin America / Luis Roniger -- Brazil: the "slow, gradual and secure transition to democracy" / Dina Lida Kinoshita -- Transition and democratic construction in post-Fujimori Peru / Rafael Roncagliolo -- How the Argentine military invented human rights in Argentina / David Sheinin -- Educational reforms in transitions to democracy: the cases of Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay / Batia Siebzehner.