Catholic Roots and Democratic Flowers
Subtitle: Political Systems in Spain and Portugal
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: April 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780275970222
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Political structures: democracy; Political Science; History - General History; History: World; Politics/International Relations; Portugal; Ethnic Studies - General; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Government - Comparative; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Democracy; Politics and government; Portugual; Spain
First sentence: On the night of February 23, 1981, gun-wielding Civil Guard officers, claiming the backing of the king, stormed into the Spanish Parliament and took the government hostage.