Politics and memory of democratic transition
Subtitle: the Spanish model
By: edited by Gregorio Alonso and Diego Muro
Series: Routledge Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain -- 18
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780415997201; 9780203834831
Description: Designed to evaluate the paradigmatic view of the Spanish transition as an ideal model for political and social change, this new and innovative volume appraises Spain's movement to democracy from a variety of important perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Spanish model revisited / Richard Gunther; title: The selection of an electoral system : less consensus, more heresthetics / José Ramón Montero and Ignacio Lago; title: Interparty consensus and partisanship in Spain's transition to democracy / Bonnie N. Field; title: Radicalism without representation : on the character of social movements in the Spanish transition to democracy / Pablo Sánchez León; title: Children of a lesser god : the political and the pastoral action of the Spanish Catholic Church / Gregorio Alonso; title: Salvation by betrayal : the left and the Spanish nation / Alejandro Quiroga; title: The Basque experience of the transition to democracy / Diego Muro; title: The "pacto de olvido" / Carsten Humlabaek; title: Cinema and television in the transition / Paul Julian Smith; title: The role of the EEC in the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek transitions / José M. Magone; title: Democratizing Spain : lessons for international democratic promotion / Omar Encarnación.