The politics and memory of democratic transition: the Spanish model

The Spanish model revisited / Richard Gunther -- The selection of an electoral system : less consensus, more heresthetics / Jose Ramon Montero and Ignacio Lago -- Interparty consensus and partisanship in Spain's transition to democracy / Bonnie N. Field -- Radicalism without representation : on the character of social movements in the Spanish transition to democracy / Pablo Sanchez Leon -- Children of a lesser god : the political and the pastoral action of the Spanish Catholic Church / Gregorio Alonso -- Salvation by betrayal : the left and the Spanish nation / Alejandro Quiroga -- The Basque experience of the transition to democracy / Diego Muro -- The "pacto de olvido" / Carsten Humlabaek -- Cinema and television in the transition / Paul Julian Smith -- The role of the EEC in the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek transitions / Jose M. Magone -- Democratizing Spain : lessons for international democratic promotion / Omar Encarnacion.

This collection of essays focuses on the social, political and cultural transformations witnessed in Spain in the late 1970s. By combining top-down and bottom-up approaches, the volume offers a renewed approach to the peaceful (re-)birth of Spanish democracy and to those actors and factors that made it possible