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Juan Linz has died in the age of 86 on 1 October 2013 to the Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Hospital of the University of Yale in which he served as a professor of political science and sociology in thirty years. He lived over 60 years in the United States. Throughout his life he always wanted to do what he did: search, teach, try to understand the basic problems of complex societies and contemporary democracies. And he accomplished all this remarkably well. He was an exceptional person and an irreplaceable master in many ways. Here I would tie me to evoke some of its publications, and more particularly its Obras Escogidas. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractThis article shows the existence of a coordination dilemma in multilevel countries that hold elections for different parliaments, at different territorial levels and with different electoral rules. With evidence from Spain, the analysis identifies interaction or contamination effects between national and subnational electoral arenas that generate, just as in most mixed‐member electoral systems, a centrifugal force that increases the number of electoral parties in national elections. The incentives that solve this coordination dilemma faced by small regional or local parties are theoretically discussed and empirically tested.

The article focuses on the impact of religiosity on electoral behavior in the context of the Spanish general elections of March 2002. Measured as the rate of church attendance, the analysis reveals that religiosity significantly did contribute to the explanation of the electoral choice in that election. This result runs against previous studies, which as a whole highlighted the steady decline of the influence of religion on voting in Spain. Two hypotheses are initially tested -and both were rejected as well: on the one hand, the possibility that the results were a consequence of new religious values in Spanish society; on the other hand, the eventual mobilization of the religious voting by Spanish political parties during the electoral campaign, On the contrary, the new strength of the religious vote is explained as a consequence of the reinforcing effect of religious identities on the preferences of a particular kind of voter: conservative individuals that, so far, had not supported the Popular Party. The analysis pays equal attention to the consequences of the disconnection between ideology & religion. Tables, Graphs, References. Adapted from the source document.

This introduction to a thematic issue of the journal, devoted to the March 2000 election in Spain, discusses a variety of related topics, including: (1) the eight general elections, many regional & municipal elections, & three referendums on European Union (EU) proposals that took place in Spain in the post-Franco era, (2) the three dominant themes of research pertaining to Spanish electoral experience: (A) the country's electoral system & its political consequences; (B) the effect of electoral reforms on the country's party system; & (C) the Spanish voter behavior on national & regional levels, (3) the topics of the seven essays selected for this thematic issue of the journal, (4) the 1984 issue of this journal devoted to the 1982 parliamentary election, (5) the changes in the configuration & political fortunes of leftist, centrist, & rightist parties between the 1982 & 2000 elections, (6) the competition & performance of individual political parties in the 2000 election, (7) the quantitative focus & rigorous empirical treatment of data collected by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas ([CIS] Center of Sociological Research) during the March 2000 election in the contributions contained in this issue of the journal. Z. Dubiel

The concept of social capital has been at the core of an intense debate in recent years from distinct approaches. The dispute has been focused on the concept itself, its formation & its consequences. This article asserts the importance of the cultural dimension of the concept exploring the logic of its formation with a detailed longitudinal analysis & estimating its consequences for the Spanish case. This cultural dimension of social capital is not reflecting any natural attribute of Spaniards, but is the result of the politics that different generations of Spaniards have been exposed to. Tables, Graphs, References. Adapted from the source document.

In 1975, General Francisco Franco's death marked the end of a long dictatorship & the beginning of political changes of extraordinary importance in Spain. Here, secondary survey data collected 1966-1989 are drawn on to examine the political attitudes of the Spanish people during the processes of transition & democratic consolidation, tracing the patterns of continuity & change that arise from several select political indicators. Findings reveal moderate, reformist, & supportive attitudes toward democratic principles that are compatible with perceptions of political mistrust & inefficacy, & with limited political participation. 9 Tables, 3 Figures, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.