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This essay provides an analysis, from a political economy perspective, of Spain's recent socioeconomic development during the last two decades. Our main research objective is to apprehend the institutional mechanisms grounding and animating the period of strong economic growth between 1995 and 2008, on the one hand, and the upcoming period of socio-economic crisis, from the onset of the Great Recession onwards, on the other. Under the presumption that both periods are ultimately indissociable, it is argued that the aforementioned period of growth was supported, in the last instance, by a set of self- defeating trends which, despite its markedly contradictory character, managed to reproduce themselves for a relatively long time thanks to the relations of mutual support provided by each to the remaining ones. Moreover, the main processes fostering such a path of economic development were not only highly contradictory when considered in isolation but had also quite pernicious social consequences. A twin goal of this essay was to investigate how such conflict-prone institutional bases had not given way to widespread political contestation. It is argued that, in order to apprehend how such a growth model could have been reproduced with virtually no social opposition, it in necessary to appraise the ways in which the worst social effects derived from the main processes governing economic expansion were prevented from coming to the fore thanks to, precisely, their mutual occurrence and successful interaction. However, once the mutual reproduction of such self-defeating trends was no longer possible, the whole institutional structure shaping them crumbled down, demolishing in turn previouslydominant social consensuses. In this respect, it is argued that, on the one hand, the length and intensity of the ensuing crisis was intimately linked to the precarious bases regulating economic expansion and that, on the other, both the timing and issues prominently at stake during the ensuing political crisis were closely related ...

El presente artículo explora las similitudes y discrepancias existentes en las reflexiones políticas de Jacques Rancière y Ernesto Laclau. En particular, su postulación de una figura antagónica o conflictiva en el seno de sus reflexiones políticas, su entendimiento de lo político como constitutivo de la objetividad social, y su concepción del sujeto político constituido mediante una coimplicación entre el particular y el universal, serán objeto de análisis. A través del itinerario teórico propuesto, se prestará especial atención a aquellos puntos en que sus respectivos enfoques entren en discordancia. La consideración conjunta de sus puntos de vista, se argumenta, permite resolver ciertas problemáticas identificadas en cada uno. ; This paper explores the similarities and differences that exist between the political approaches of Jacques Rancière and Ernesto Laclau, respectively. In particular, the areas analysed include their postulation of an antagonistic or conflictive figure at the centre of their political reflections, their understanding of the political as constitutive of social objectivity, and their conception of a political subject constituted through a co-implication between the particular and the universal. Throughout the theoretical itinerary proposed, special attention is paid to those aspects where there are discrepancies between their approaches. It is argued that by considering them together a solution may be provided to some of the problems identified in each of their approaches. ; SI