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Symbol and ritual in the new Spain : the transition to democracy after Franco
- Title
- Symbol and ritual in the new Spain : the transition to democracy after Franco / Laura Desfor Edles.
- Author
- Edles, Laura Desfor.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 197 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. After Franco's death in 1975, Spain witnessed an extraordinary "period of consensus," unique in its own history. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the "strategy of consensus" deployed by the Spanish elite at this time, and uses systematic text interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical to the success of the transition.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge cultural social studies
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge cultural social studies
- Alternative Title
- Transition to democracy after Franco
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-192) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 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 -- pt. II. Symbolic basis of Spanish consensus. 4. Spirit of consensus: the core representations of the Spanish transition. 5. Curtain rises: the first democratic elections. 6. 1977 Moncloa Pacts and the ritualization of communality -- pt. III. Conflict and consensus in the institutionalization of Spanish democracy. 7. Democratic reaggregation and the 1978 Constitution. 8. Basque exception: questions of communality and democracy. 9. Conclusion and epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0521621402
- 9780521621403
- 0521628857
- 9780521628853
- 9780511557774
- 0511557779
- LCCN
- 97031040
- OCLC
- ocm37443523
- 37443523
- SCSB-379122
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library