Political leadership in the Spanish transition to democracy (1975-1982) /editors, José Francisco Jiménez-Díaz (Political Science and Public Administration Area Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain) and Santiago Delgado-Fernández (Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Granada, Spain).

"A key idea in the study of democratic transitions is the notion that political actors play a pivotal role in initiating, controlling and shaping the changes that lead to democracy. Based on this premise, this book aims to offer an in-depth study of a series of political leaders that played a significant role in the Spanish democratic transition (1975-1982). This book opens with an introduction providing the historical, political and theoretical context for the study of the political leaders of the Spanish transition to democracy. The authors then offer in the first half of the book a study of the central and/or innovative leaders of the political transformation, i.e. Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Adolfo Suárez González, Felipe González Márquez, Manuel Fraga Iribarne and Santiago Carrillo Solares. The second half of the book analyzes the leadership roles of Fernando Abril Martorell, Francisco Fernández Ordóñez, Alfonso Guerra González, Jordi Pujol i Soley and Xabier Arzalluz Antia. Taken together, these ten leaders represented the main options in the political spectrum of the Spanish transition. Despite numerous studies devoted to the Spanish transition, little attention has been paid to it. This book aims to reconsider these ideas in an effort to improve upon our knowledge of political leadership during a crucial time in recent Spanish history"--From publisher's website.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Political leaders in the Spanish transition to democracy / José Francisco Jiménez-Díaz and Santiago Delgado-Fernández (Political Science and Public Administration Area Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain, and others) -- Introduction: The study of political leadership in the Spanish transition (1975-1982) / José Francisco Jiménez-Díaz, and Santiago Delgado-Fernández -- Part I. The central and innovative political leaders in the Spanish transition to democracy -- Torcuato Fernández-Miranda / Julio Ponce-Alberca (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) -- Adolfo Suárez González / José Francisco Jiménez-Díaz (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) -- Felipe González Márquez / Manuela Ortega-Ruiz (Universidad de Jaén, Spain) -- Santiago Carrillo Solares / Antonio Robles-Egea (Universidad de Granada, Spain) -- Manuel Fraga Iribarne / Lourdes López-Nieto (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain) -- Part II. The political chorus of innovative leaders in the Spanish transition to democracy -- Fernando Abril Martorell / Carlos Sánchez-Fernández (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) -- Francisco Fernández Ordóñez / Santiago Delgado-Fernández (Universidad de Granada, Spain) -- Alfonso Guerra González / Belén Blázquez-Vilaplana (Universidad de Jaén, Spain) -- Jordi Pujol i Soley / Francisco Collado-Campaña (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain) -- Xabier Arzalluz Antia / Francisco José Llera-Ramo and Rafael Leonisio-Calvo (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain).

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