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The Triumph of Democracy in Spain Paperback – 19 Feb 1987

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  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition (19 Feb. 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 041504314X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415043144
  • Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.7 x 23.4 cm
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3.0 out of 5 starstoo much british optimism
By Carlos Vazquez Quintana on 17 Mar. 2009
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This book is good or at less has that solidity very own of British essays and works. Here in Spain, this books have great acceptation, as Spaniard people seems in very big need to reassure about his own worth in this world after so many centuries of decadence. In order to attain this security, favourable English books and authors are very appreciated here. Spain is, as I say, a country with a big inferiority complex.
But I'm afraid, as many of these books, the author sees a Spain triumphant mainly because he's a friend of Spain and Spanish costumes and people. Not all authors are, as not everybody tastes the same meal.
I'm Spanish, and I'm more pessimistic than Paul Preston, as I think democracy isn't consolidated here, after seeing his evolution during 30 years in my country. This is because Spain has a hard obstacle to become a full democracy: simply, the average Spaniard hasn't a democratic soul nor a democratic mind.
Yes we can have the letter of the constitution and the external forms, but common Spanish people is deeply authoritarian at hearth. If you scrape only slightly in his opinions, these delayed hot visceral Spanish temper arises briskly, excepting in a minority of Spaniards more educated, but they are only that: a minority. Spanish citizen votes every 4 years, yes, but in these interval, he's virtually a subject semi- enslaved by stupid, very usually, corrupted functionaries and politics. Here, social or civic associations are virtually non existent, and institutions as the ombudsman, a bitter parody. Yes: football and bullfight are good (sometimes at less), I would say indispensable as a an social opiate.
And so, you don't deceive: Spaniards doesn't like democracy very much, nor monarchy, in spite the massive, stupid propaganda from TV and "liberal" newspapers.Read more ›
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Paul Preston has the ability to make recent history come to life. He wrote a highly readable account of the events during the transition to democracy in Spain. Yet, quality, detail and high standards of academic research, analysis and synthesis are never neglected. In a vivid account he describes the last period of the Francoist state, first under Carrero Blanco and then under Arias Navarro before proceeding to write in great detail and with astuteness the actual 'transition' under Suárez and Calvo Sotelo, including the infamous Tejero coup. Important topics such as application for EC and NATO membership and ETA terrorism are treated equally well. The book ends with the election of the PSOE government in October 1982. This is still the best English-language book available about the transition. Get it if you are interested!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book 14 July 2016
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4.0 out of 5 stars A fine review of Post-Franco Spain 6 April 2000
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Paul Preston's study of Spain's year of transition following the death of Franco is extremely useful to understand the triumph of democracy in a country with little previous experience in liberty. A highly recommendable book for anybody interested in comtemporary Spanish history or for political scientists interested in transitions from authoritarian rule to democratic rule.
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3.0 out of 5 stars too much foreign optimism 17 Mar. 2009
By Carlos Vazquez Quintana - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is good or at less has that solidity very own of British essays and works. Here in Spain, this books have great acceptation, as Spaniard people seems in very big need to reassure about his own worth in this world after so many centuries of decadence. In order to attain this security, favourable English books and authors are very appreciated here. Spain is, as I say, a country with a big inferiority complex.
But I'm afraid, as many of these books, the author sees a Spain triumphant mainly because he's a friend of Spain and Spanish costumes and people. Not all authors are, as not everybody tastes the same meal.
I'm Spanish, and I'm more pessimistic than Paul Preston, as I think democracy isn't consolidated here, after seeing his evolution during 30 years in my country. This is because Spain has a hard obstacle to become a full democracy: simply, the average Spaniard hasn't a democratic soul at hearth.
Yes we can have the letter of the constitution and the external forms, but common Spanish people is roughly, ancestrally authoritarian.
Furthermore, the Spanish citizen votes every 4 years, yes, but in these interval, he's virtually a subject semi- enslaved by stupid functionaries and politics, useless corrupted people which have multiplied owing to the harmful system of the "automomías". These are a conjunction of the antique provinces, as the states that constitute the USA, but Spain isn't by far as the USA, nor for extension nor for his weak development. Spain yes, is a very old country, but nowadays we have the danger of vanishing as an united country, as in the Balkans, having in count the strong world economical crisis of today. Concretely, Andalucia, a vast territory in the South, has a semi- african- moorish level of life terribly delayed that can't be included with justice in an European standard of life.
Here, social or civic associations are virtually non existent, and institutions as the ombudsman, a bitter parody.
And so, you don't deceive: Spaniards doesn't like democracy very much, nor monarchy, in spite the massive, stupid propaganda from TV and "liberal" newspapers. Many, many people are as dumb, but they are truly nostalgic of Franco.
This is logical: in Spain never happened a French revolution, nor we had an Oliver Cromwell, nor here has been a really good scientific education (education and culture is a pure farce here, with -another time- some exceptions).
Of course, there are another regimes not democratic that made to work a country, but at less, it's necessary to recognize that.
This is very important to be aware, as I think the present world economical crisis has to probe very hardly the solidity of Spanish democracy.
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