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From Franco to Freedom - The Roots of the Transition to Democracy in Spain, 1962-1982 (Hardcover)
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From Franco to Freedom - The Roots of the Transition to Democracy in Spain, 1962-1982 (Hardcover)
Series: Sussex Studies in Spanish History
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This book brings together recent research by a group of specialists
in history and sociology to provide a new reading of the late
Franco dictatorship, especially in relation to its political
culture. The authors focus on the election of local, trade union
and national representatives, the work of the first Spanish
sociologists, the struggle over administrative reform, the role of
the media and the intellectuals, as well as the evolution of the
dictatorships political class and its response to the regimes
decline. Not only are the politics of the late dictatorship
scrutinised, but also the mechanisms that were deployed to control
the fast-changing society of the 1960s and 1970s. In examining the
late Franco period, the contributors do not believe that it
contained the seeds of Spains later democratisation, but maintain
that certain sectorial regime initiatives -- electoral and
political changes, an evolving discourse and an interest in
political processes outside Spain -- made many Spaniards aware of
the dictatorships contradictions and limitations, thereby
encouraging its subsequent political and social evolution. This
transformation is compared with the latter stages of the parallel
dictatorship in Portugal. The great majority of Spaniards felt that
the embrace of democratic freedoms and integration into the
European Community was the only way forward during the Transition.
But the shift from dictatorship to democracy from the 1960s onwards
in Spain needs to be understood in relation to the multitude of
political and social changes that took place -- despite the
opposition of Franco and the bunker mentality of the regime. These
changes manifested in a complex interaction between internal and
external factors, which eventually resulted in the transformation
of Spanish society itself.
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