Book Description
This book assesses the different factors which have combined to influence Spain's political and economic modernisation and provides a cumulative picture of political change.
Author : Edward Moxon-Browne
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This book assesses the different factors which have combined to influence Spain's political and economic modernisation and provides a cumulative picture of political change.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004483225
Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation have been an object of reflection for a number of film directors and fiction writers, who have probed the return of the repressed under spectral conditions. Above all, this book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents and an open field for encounters with different, possibly divergent, and necessarily fragmented recollections. The pact of the Transition could not entirely disguise the naturalization of a society made of winners and losers, nor could it ensure the consolidation of amnesia by political agents and by the tools that create hegemony by shaping opinion. Spanish society is haunted by the specters of a past it has tried to surmount by denying it. It seems unlikely that it can rid itself of its ghosts without in the process undermining the democracy it sought to legitimate through the erasure of memories and the drowning of witnesses' voices in the cacaphony of triumphant modernization.
Author : José María Magone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Spain
ISBN : 0415421888
With a focus predominantly on the two governments of José Maria Aznar between 1996 and 2004, and the José Luis Zapatero government after 2004, this book provides an introduction for students of Spain's history and its contemporary politics.
Author : Omar G. Encarnación
Publisher : Polity
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745639925
An introductory textbook on contemporary Spanish politics, this book shows how Spain made a smooth transition from authoritarian to democratic rule, each chapter dealing with a different aspect of this process. The book goes on to analyse the consequences of the socialist administration of Zapatero.
Author : Diego Muro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1136852247
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.
Author : Thomas D. Lancaster
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Eusebio Mujal-León
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253313898
Author : Paul Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134951418
The Triumph of Democracy in Spain tells a gripping story of the tortuous creation of Spain's constitutional monarchy. The book provides an authoritative account of the tribulations of the forces of progress, beginning in 1969 with the disintegration of Franco's dictatorship and ending with the remarkable Socialist election victory in 1982.
Author : José María Maravall
Publisher : London : Croom Helm
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : John F. Coverdale
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN :