Few might have imagined the advancements and the level of reforms that happened lower than Spanish major Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero among 2004 and 2008. lower than Zapatero, Spain speedily withdrew Spanish troops from Iraq, held a really public political debate at the Spanish Civil conflict and the Franco dictatorship, handed very revolutionary social laws that included homosexual marriage and adoption as good as a sweeping gender equality act, and multiplied autonomy in six of Spain’s 17 areas. It has develop into very common to consult a few or all of those advancements as a ‘second transition’ that alters or revisits guidelines, institutional preparations and political ideas that have been validated in the course of Spain’s transition to democracy.

This book analyzes the styles of continuity and alter and gives a nuanced, serious review of the concept that of a ‘second transition’. 3 extensive questions are addressed. First, to what measure do the advancements less than Zapatero’s Socialist govt symbolize a departure from earlier styles of Spanish politics? moment, what debts for the continuities and departures? ultimately, the venture starts off to evaluate the consequences of those advancements. Are there lasting results, for instance, on political participation, electoral alignments, interparty and inter-regional kin extra broadly?

This booklet used to be released as a distinct factor of South ecu Society & Politics.