The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition : The Spanish Model (Hardcover)

Introduction. Gregorio Alonso and Diego Muro Part I: Politics 1. The Spanish Model Revisited. Richard Gunther 2. The Selection of an Electoral System: Less Consensus, More Heresthetics. Jose Ramon Montero and Ignacio Lago 3. Interparty Consensus and Partisanship in Spain's Transition to Democracy. Bonnie N. Field Part II: Civil Society 4. Radicalism without Representation: On the Character of Social Movements in the Spanish Transition to Democracy. Pablo Sanchez Leon 5. Children of a Lesser God: The Political and the Pastoral Action of the Spanish Catholic Church. Gregorio Alonso Part III: Nationalism 6. Salvation by Betrayal: The Left and the Spanish Nation. Alejandro Quiroga 7. The Basque Experience of the Transition to Democracy. Diego Muro Part IV: Memory 8. ‘Pacto de Olvido’. Carsten Humlabaek 9.Cinema and Television in the Transition. Paul Julian Smith Part V: International Dimension 10. The Role of the EEC in the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek Transitions. Jose M. Magone 11. Democratizing Spain: Lessons for International Democratic Promotion. Omar Encarnacion