Memory of the Civil War in the transition to democracy: the peculiarity of the Basque case / Paloma Aguilar -- Ideologies in the making of the Spanish transition / Elías Díaz -- Spanish 'State of autonomies': non-institutional federalism / Josep M. Colomer -- Stabilising the democratic order: electoral behaviour in Spain / José Ramón Montero -- Political scandals and political responsibility in democratic Spain / Fernando Jiménez -- Power diffusion or concentration? in search of the Spanish policy process / Paul Heywood -- Pressure groups and the articulation of interests / Joaquim M. Molins and Alex Casademunt -- Judicial review and political empowerment: abortion in Spain / Belén Barreiro -- Spanish socialists, privatising the right way? / Raj S. Chari -- Regional decentralisation of health policy in Spain: social capital does not tell the whole story / Ana Rico, Pablo González and Marta Fraile -- 'Soft side' of employment policy: the Spanish experience / Victor Pérez-Díaz
Summary
Spain is different"" was a favourite tourist board slogan of the Franco dictatorship. Is Spain still different? This volume provides an original series of analyses of how politics in democratic Spain has developed since the remarkable success of the transition to democracy
