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The Politics of Contemporary Spain
While Spain is now a well-established democracy closely integrated into the European Union, it has suffered from a number of severe internal problems such as corruption, discord between state and regional nationalism, and separatist terrorism. The Politics of Contemporary Spain charts the trajectory of Spanish politics from the transition to democracy through to the present day, including the aftermath of the Madrid bombings of March 2004 and the elections that followed three days later. It offers new insights on the main political parties and the political system, on the monarchy, corruption, terrorism, regional and conservative nationalism, and on Spain's policies in the Mediterranean and the EU. It challenges many existing assumptions about politics in Spain, reaching beyond systems and practices to look at identities, political cultures and mentalities. It brings to bear on the analysis the latest empirical data and theoretical perspectives.
Fictional Portrayals of Spain's Transition to Democracy
This manuscript looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares them with more recent publications. The main focus here is how fiction brings an extra dimension to the recreation of the past, by adding imagination to historical fact. One effect of this is to challenge readers or spectators to question the effect the reliability of the narrator has on conviction about the events told. By using a specific moment in time, Spain’s Transition, it will be seen that memory, history and imagination all blend together to create very different stories, but all are linked with the idea that the past will always haunt the present and actions from the past will have far-reaching consequences. Texts analysed here include work by Javier Cercas, Eduardo Mendoza, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Rosa Montero, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Gonzalo López Alba, as well as episodes from two popular TV series, Cuéntame cómo pasó and Protagonistas de la Transición.
Spain
This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present day Tusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During his lifetime he negotiated the return to Spain of Picasso’s Guernica, was elected UCD councillor for Madrid, and became a respected media commentator before his untimely death in 2005 Includes a biography and political assessment of Francisco Franco Covers a number of pertinent topics, including fascism, isolationism, political opposition, economic development, decolonization, terrorism, foreign policy, and democracy Provides a context for understanding the continuing tensions between democracy and terrorism, including the effects of the 2004 Madrid Bombings
El tamayazo
El 10 de junio de 2003, la deslealtad cometida por dos diputados socialistas dejó en minoría a la izquierda en la Comunidad de Madrid y abrió una crisis política sin precedentes en España. La traición de Eduardo Tamayo y María Teresa Sáez aconteció durante el verano en el que José María Aznar eligió a Mariano Rajoy como sucesor al frente del Partido Popular. Diez meses antes, también, de que José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero alcanzara la presidencia del Gobierno. Las desavenencias por la forma de gestionar aquella felonía están, además, en el origen de la mala relación política que ha existido desde entonces entre Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón y Esperanza Aguirre. Luchas de poder, alevosas traiciones, guerras internas, negociaciones secretas, tramas ocultas, peleas cainitas... Todos estos ingredientes, y algunos más, confluyen en la trama, no carente de suspense, que relata Felipe Serrano para desvelar algunas de las claves de aquel oscuro episodio nunca investigado judicialmente.
Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain
The book analyzes the place of religious difference in late modernity through a study of the role played by Jews and Muslims in the construction of contemporary Spanish national identity. The focus is on the transition from an exclusive, homogeneous sense of collective Self toward a more pluralistic, open and tolerant one in an European context. This process is approached from different dimensions. At the national level, it follows the changes in nationalist historiography, the education system and the public debates on national identity. At the international level, it tackles the problem from the perspective of Spanish foreign policy towards Israel and the Arab-Muslim states in a changing global context. From the social-communicational point of view, the emphasis is on the construction of the Self–Other dichotomy (with Jewish and Muslim others) as reflected in the three leading Spanish newspapers.
La decepción
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Zapatero, el legado progresista
Por la conmemoración de los veinte años del Gobierno de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, este libro nos revela la trastienda de sus políticas más progresistas y su legado. Cuando se cumplen veinte años de la victoria electoral que convirtió a José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero en presidente del Gobierno, este libro nos revela la trastienda de las políticas más progresistas y polémicas de sus dos mandatos, las dificultades que surgieron para poder implementarlas y cómo este legado cambió a España para siempre. Leyes que ahora están totalmente asumidas por la sociedad (como la ley contra la violencia de género, la de igualdad, la del matrimonio homosexual o el «divorcio exprés») y ...
Daily Report
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La crisis de representación en España
Se ha escrito mucho acerca de la transición, las instituciones, la cultura política de nuestro país o del déficit democrático europeo. Sin embargo, sabemos muy poco de los españoles: ¿Cómo vivieron el 15-M? ¿Qué piensan de nuestra democracia? ¿Cuáles son sus opiniones políticas? Este libro ofrece así una perspectiva poco explorada, que busca analizar, desde la mirada de la sociedad española, sus principales cambios, que cristalizaron con la crisis económica, el 15-M y las movilizaciones posteriores y que expresaron tanto el descontento como la fuerza repolitizadora de la ciudadanía. Una obra indispensable para comprender el calado de la crisis política como crisis de representación, fruto de la profunda desconexión entre las formaciones políticas y los ciudadanos.
