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Informationen zum Autor Bonnie N. Fieldis Assistant Professor of Global Studies at Bentley University! Massachusetts! USA. She has published articles in Comparative Political Studies! Comparative Politics! Democratization! PS: Political Science and Politics! Party Politics! Revista Española de Ciencia Política! and Electoral Studies. She is co-editor (with Kerstin Hamann) of Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective! Palgrave-Macmillan! 2008. Klappentext This text systematically analyzes the patterns of continuity and change under Zapatero's Socialist government! and provides a nuanced! critical evaluation of the concept of a 'second transition'. Zusammenfassung This book systematically analyzes the patterns of continuity and change under Zapatero’s Socialist government, and provides a nuanced, critical evaluation of the concept of a ‘second transition’. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society & Politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A ‘Second Transition’ in Spain? Policy, Institutions and Interparty Politics under Zapatero (2004–8) Bonnie N. Field 2. Spain’s New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated? Omar G. Encarnacion 3. Minority Government and Legislative Politics in a Multilevel State: Spain under Zapatero Bonnie N. Field 4. Reforms Betrayed? Zapatero and Continuities in Economic Policy Sebastian Royo 5. Territorial Accommodation, Party Politics, and Statute Reform in Spain Diego Muro 6. Progressive Failure: Government, Unions and the Continuing Marginalisation of Immigrants in Spain, 2004–8 Andrew Richards 7. Ungrateful Citizens? Women’s Rights Policies in Zapatero’s Spain Kerman Calvo and Irene Martin 8. Much Ado about Little: Continuity and Change in the European Union Policy of the Spanish Socialist Government (2004–8) Carlos Closa 9. A Second Transition, or More of the Same? Spanish Foreign Policy under Zapatero Charles Powell ...
