The abrupt collapse and dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the party which governed Spain during the crucial period of the transition to democracy (1977-82), is one of the most extraordinary events in the history of European party politics. This book develops an original theoretical framework for the study of party institutionalisation, and draws on a wide range of empirical sources to offer new insights into the causes of the UCD's collapse. In explaining how a party, capable of winning two consecutive general elections and achieving notable successes in government, could disintegrate so spectacularly, Jonathan Hopkin's book will be of interest to students of comparative politics, political parties and of Spanish poli...
This thesis examines the methodology prevalent in the analysis of democratic transitions, focusing u...
In reality o f representative democracy, the economic situation of the state is one of the most impo...
The economic crisis in Spain that began in 2008 led to the deep social discontent that later turned ...
The bachelor thesis considers the Spanish transition to democracy, which started after the death of ...
From the transition to democracy in 1975 the Spanish Workers' Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Ob...
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the formation of Spanish party system from the democratic trans...
Several of the world's leading scholars present critical analyses (both conceptual and empirical) of...
Defence date: 15 December 1995Examining board: Prof. Jean Blondel, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Jose Ram...
Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma....
This article addresses the relationship between political decentralization and the organization of p...
This book offers a systematic and far-reaching account of party system institutionalization in Weste...
This article explores the political consequences of austerity politics in Spain. It argues that the ...
At the beginning of the 1980s when social-democratic parties in northern and central Europe were con...
This book analyzes Spanish political parties and institutions in comparative theoretical perspective...
Focusing on coalitional decision-making, this book explains the political effects of the transformat...
This thesis examines the methodology prevalent in the analysis of democratic transitions, focusing u...
In reality o f representative democracy, the economic situation of the state is one of the most impo...
The economic crisis in Spain that began in 2008 led to the deep social discontent that later turned ...
The bachelor thesis considers the Spanish transition to democracy, which started after the death of ...
From the transition to democracy in 1975 the Spanish Workers' Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Ob...
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the formation of Spanish party system from the democratic trans...
Several of the world's leading scholars present critical analyses (both conceptual and empirical) of...
Defence date: 15 December 1995Examining board: Prof. Jean Blondel, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Jose Ram...
Most accounts on the Spanish transition to democracy of the late 1970s are based on a false dilemma....
This article addresses the relationship between political decentralization and the organization of p...
This book offers a systematic and far-reaching account of party system institutionalization in Weste...
This article explores the political consequences of austerity politics in Spain. It argues that the ...
At the beginning of the 1980s when social-democratic parties in northern and central Europe were con...
This book analyzes Spanish political parties and institutions in comparative theoretical perspective...
Focusing on coalitional decision-making, this book explains the political effects of the transformat...
This thesis examines the methodology prevalent in the analysis of democratic transitions, focusing u...
In reality o f representative democracy, the economic situation of the state is one of the most impo...
The economic crisis in Spain that began in 2008 led to the deep social discontent that later turned ...