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Spain's 'Second Transition'?: The Socialist Government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero book cover

1st Edition

Spain's 'Second Transition'? The Socialist Government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Edited By Bonnie N. Field Copyright 2011
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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Few would have imagined the developments and the extent of reforms that occurred under Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero between 2004 and 2008. Under Zapatero, Spain rapidly withdrew Spanish troops from Iraq, held a very public political debate on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, passed very progressive social legislation that included gay marriage and... Read more

1. A ‘Second Transition’? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004-08), by Bonnie N. Field (Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Bentley University, Massachusetts)

2. From Corporatism to Pluralism? Interest Politics in Zapatero’s Spain, by Omar G. Encarnación (Associate Professor and Chair of Political Studies, Bard College, New York)

3. Immigration and the Labor Movement in Zapatero’s Spain, by Andrew Richards (Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid)

4. Territorial Politics in Zapatero’s Spain, by Diego Muro (Lecturer in European Studies, King’s College London)

5. Zapatero and the Challenges of Economic Reforms, by Sebastián Royo (Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Government, Suffolk University, Massachusetts)

6. Legislative Politics and Party Polarization in Spain, 2004-2008, by Bonnie N. Field (Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Bentley University, Massachusetts)

7. Citizenship Policies and the Political Involvement of Minorities in Zapatero’s Spain, by Kerman Calvo (Research Fellow, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid) and Irene Martín (Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

8. Business as Usual: EU Policy under Zapatero, by Carlos Closa (Senior Researcher, Spanish Research Council (CSIC))

9. Spanish Foreign Policy under Zapatero, by Charles Powell (Deputy Director, Elcano Royal Institute, and Professor of History, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid)

Biography

Bonnie N. Field is 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.

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