RT Journal Article
T1 Institutional suicide and elite coordination: the Spanish transition revisited
A1 Sánchez-Cuenca Rodríguez, Ignacio
A1 Medina Sierra, Luis Fernando
AB In the literature on democratisation, the Spanish case has a paradigmatic status, especially for the negotiations between the regime and the opposition. While these negotiations did stabilise the new regime, the transition was driven by the regime's elites. The key event was the approval of the Law for Political Reform in November 1976, when the legislature voted its own demise. The change was done according to the rules of the system. To explain this reform, we offer a formal model of coordination and a statistical analysis of an original dataset of the 531 legislators. The reform was possible because of elites' belief coordination.
PB Taylor and Francis Group
SN 1360-8746
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39335
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/39335
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 10 may. 2024