Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain - The Transition to Democracy After Franco

Klappentext Examines the role of culture in social change and Spanish democratisation post-Franco. Zusammenfassung Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to Spain's transition to democracy after Franco. She uses textual interpretation of Spanish newspapers to examine the 'strategy of consensus' deployed at this time and uncovers the processes of symbolization and ritualization behind the political transition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Interpreting the Spanish Transition to Democracy: 1. Introduction; 2. Theories of transition and transitions in theory; 3. Spain: a history of divisions and democracy; Part II. The Symbolic Basis of Spanish Consensus: 4. The spirit of consensus: the core representations of the Spanish transition; 5. The curtain rises: the first democratic elections; 6. The 1977 Moncloa pacts and ritualization of communality; Part III. Conflict and Consensus in the Institutionalization of Spanish Democracy: 7. Democratic reaggregation and the 1978 Constitution; 8. The Basque exception: questions of communality and democracy; 9. Conclusion and epilogue.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Laura Desfor Edles, Laura Desfor (University of Hawaii Edles, Edles Laura Desfor
• Mitarbeit: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Herausgeber), Steven Seidman (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.04.1998
• EAN: 9780521628853
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62885-3
• Seiten: 212
• Serien: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Cultural Studies, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy