Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain

Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain
Author: Paul Heywood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135231494

Spain is different" was a favourite tourist board slogan of the Franco dictatorship. Is Spain still different? This volume provides an original series of analyses of how politics in democratic Spain has developed since the remarkable success of the transition to democracy.

Democracy in Modern Spain

Democracy in Modern Spain
Author: Richard Gunther
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780300101522

Based on more than 500 hours of interviews with key political elites (under both the Franco regime and the current democracy), extensive analyses of public opinion and electoral behavior surveys, and other original research, the book sheds important new light on Spain's democractic regime and its key institutions."--BOOK JACKET.

Spanish Politics

Spanish Politics
Author: Omar G. Encarnación
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2008-07-08
Genre: 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.

Refiguring Democracy

Refiguring Democracy
Author: Ramón Feenstra
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351663305

The book offers an overall view of the way democracy is being reshaped in the Spanish lab through the impact of social media, and social and political changes.

Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems

Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems
Author: Thomas Däubler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429515561

This comprehensive volume studies the vices and virtues of regionalisation in comparative perspective, including countries such as Belgium, Germany, Spain, and the UK, and discusses conditions that might facilitate or hamper responsiveness in regional democracies. It follows the entire chain of democratic responsiveness, starting from the translation of citizen preferences into voting behaviour, up to patterns of decision-making and policy implementation. Many European democracies have experienced considerable decentralisation over the past few decades. This book explores the key virtues which may accompany this trend, such as regional-level political authorities performing better in understanding and implementing citizens’ preferences. It also examines how, on the other hand, decentralisation can come at a price, especially since the resulting multi-level structures may create several new obstacles to democratic representation, including information, responsibility and accountability problems. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal West European Politics.

The Populist Radical Right

The Populist Radical Right
Author: Cas Mudde
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315514559

The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles. This is the first reader to bring together the most seminal articles and book chapters on the contemporary populist radical right in western democracies. It has a broad regional and topical focus and includes work that has made an original theoretical contribution to the field, which make them less time-specific. The reader is organized in six thematic sections: (1) ideology and issues; (2) parties, organizations, and subcultures; (3) leaders, members, and voters; (4) causes; (5) consequences; and (6) responses. Each section features a short introduction by the editor, which introduces and ties together the selected pieces and provides discussion questions and suggestions for further readings. The reader is ended with a conclusion in which the editor reflects on the future of the populist radical right in light of (more) recent political developments – most notably the Greek economic crisis and the refugee crisis – and suggest avenues for future research.

Storable Votes

Storable Votes
Author: Alessandra Casella
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019530909X

Storable votes allow the minority to win occasionally while treating every voter equally and increasing the efficiency of decision-making, without the need for external knowledge of voters' preferences. This book complements the theoretical discussion with several experiments, showing that the promise of the idea is borne out by the data: the outcomes of the experiments and the payoffs realized match very closely the predictions of the theory.

Technopopulism

Technopopulism
Author: Christopher J. Bickerton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198807767

This is a book about a contemporary transformation in democratic politics: the rise of a new political field, techno-populism.

Spain's First Democracy

Spain's First Democracy
Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780299136741

Payne's study places Spain's Second Republic within the historical framework of Spanish liberalism, and the rapid modernisation of inter-war Europe. He aims to present a consistent and detailed interpretation, demonstrating striking parallels to the German Weimar Republic.

The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition

The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition
Author: Diego Muro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: 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.