Why are Spaniards currently exhuming mass graves of the Civil War? How can the country tolerate an unemployment rate of 20 percent? Why has Catalan and Basque nationalism dominated politics for decades? Why does a country with a historic reputation for machismo boast such progressive laws on gender and gay marriages? How come political corruption remains so prevalent? This course examines political and social issues relevant to Spaniards today. It begins by discussing recent history in order to contextualize the major themes of the past few decades. It then moves to those subjects that emerged out of the transition to democracy – regionalism, terrorism, and linguistic pluralism – and still account for many of the peculiarities of Spanish politics. The second half of the course analyzes “Spain’s Second Transition” under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero by focusing on immigration, Islamic fundamentalism, foreign policy, gender and family relations, historical memory, political corruption, and the economic crisis. The course is multi-disciplinary, consisting of a mixture of readings from political science, history, and cultural studies. Each session will consist of a lecture and a class discussion.
Attendance policy:
Attendance is mandatory for all IES classes, including field studies. Any exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. If a student misses more than three classes in any course half a letter grade will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course students will be able to:
• engage directly in debates concerning events in Spain currently covered in the news.
• articulate the historical context of regional tensions in Spain today.
• analyze the tremendous changes that have taken place within Spanish society and culture over the past three decades.
• demonstrate knowledge of the major issues relevant to Spaniards and Europeans today, including immigration, unemployment, the economic crisis, gender relations, and the European Union.
Method of presentation:
Lectures, class discussions, class presentations.
LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION: English
Required work and form of assessment:
Class participation (15%); oral presentation (5%);
essay (20%); mid-term exam (30%); final exam (30%)
Students are expected to attend all class sessions prepared to discuss the reading. Students are also required to write an essay (7 pages long; Time New Roman 12; 1.5 lines) that cover the major subjects discussed in the class. Students will be required to give a short presentation on their essays during the final class sessions. The essay will be submitted in hard copy and also sent by email to the professor.
Essay Topics: Students may choose to write on any of the following essay topics. All other essay topics must be cleared in advance with the professor.
1. To what extent has Spanish society come to terms with the legacy of the Civil War, Francoism and the repression?
2. Why has terrorism persisted in the Basque Country despite the advent of democracy?
3. Discuss and evaluate the merits and drawbacks of linguistic normalization in Catalonia.
4. How have gender and family relations changed since the transition to democracy?
5. Discuss and evaluate the challenges that immigration presents in Spain today.
6. Discuss and evaluate the most salient characteristics of Zapatero’s “Second Spanish Transition”?
7. To what extent has Spanish foreign policy (and policy toward the European Union) shifted since the transition to democracy?
content:
Session 1. Introduction to the course.
Session 2. The Construction of the Spanish State
Required Reading:
Magone José M, “The Transformation of Spanish
Politics: A Review of the Historical Legacy,” in
Contemporary Spanish Politics, 2d. ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2009), pp. 1-32.
Session 3.The Legacy of the Past: Francoism and Repression
Required Reading:
Richards Michael, “Civil War, Violence, and the
Construction of Francoism,” in The Republic Besieged, ed. Preston Paul and Mackenzie Anne L. (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1996), pp. 197-240.
Session 4. The Legacy of the Past: Francoism and Development
Required Reading:
Balfour Sebastian, “The Desarollo years, 1955-1975,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. Álvarez
Junco José and Shubert Adrian (New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2000), pp. 277-288
Session 5. The Transition to Democracy
Required Reading:
Aguilar Paloma, “The Opposition to Franco, The Transition to Democracy, and the New Political
System,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. Álvarez Junco José and Shubert Adrian (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 303-314.
Session 6. Political Parties and Governments since the Transition (1)
Required Reading:J
uliá Santos, “The Socialist Era, 1982-1996,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. Álvarez Junco José and Shubert Adrian (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 331-344
Session 7. Political Parties and Governments since the Transition (2)
Required Reading:B
alfour Sebastian, “The Reinvention of Spanish
Conservatism: The Popular Party since 1989,” in
The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Balfour
Sebastian (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), 146-168.
Session 8. The Legacy of the Transition: The Pact of Memory and Forgetting
Required Reading:
Aguilar Paloma, “Justice, Transition, and Memory in the Spanish Transition,” in The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing
Societies, ed. Barahona de Brito Alexandra, Gónzales Carmen, and Aguilar Paloma (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 92-118.
Session 9. The Legacy of the Transition: Regions and Regionalization
Required Reading:
Hooper John, “Centrifugal Forces,” in The New
Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 217-230.
Session 10. Catalan, Basque, and Galician Nationalisms
Required Reading:
Hooper John, “The Basques” and “The Catalans” in
The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin,
2006), pp. 231-265.
Session 11. Controversy in Catalonia: Linguistic Normalization
Required Reading:
MacGinnes John, “Consensus and Controversy in
Language Normalisation in Catalunya: The 1999
Law,” Journal of Catalan Studies (October, 1999)
Session 12. Controversy in the Basque Country: The Persistence of Terrorism
Required Reading:
Mata José Manuel, “Terrorism and Nationalist Conflict: The Weakness of Democracy in the Basque Country,” The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Balfour Sebastian (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 81-105.
Session 13: Review Session
Session 14: Midterm Exam
Session 15: Spanish Foreign Policy and the Terrorist Attacks of 11 March 2004
Required Reading:
Tremlett Giles, “11-M: Moros y Cristianos,” in Ghosts of Spain (London: Faber and Faber,
2006), pp. 246-280.
Session 16: Spain’s Second Transition? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Required Reading:
Encarnación Omar G, “Spain’s New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated?” South
European Society and Politics, v. 14, n.4 (2009): pp. 399-415.
Session 17: Spain and the European Union
Required Reading:
Powell Charles, “Spanish Membership of the European Union Revisited,” South European Society and Politics, v. 8, nos. 1-2 (March 2003): pp. 147-168.
Closa Carlos, “Much Ado About Little: Continuity and Change of the European Union Policy of the Spanish Socialist Government,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 503-
518.
Session 18: Gender, Family, and Marriage
Required Reading:
Hooper John, “Sex: From Francoist Prudery to Gay
Marriage,” and “Men and Women: Machismo
Meltdown,” in The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 108-133.
Session 19: The Exhumation of Mass Graves and the Historic Memory Law
Required Reading:
Golob Stephanie, “Volver: The Return of/to Transitional Justice Politics in Spain," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies v. 9, n.2 (July 2008): pp. 127-141
Session 20: Immigration
Required Reading:
Ortún Rubio Marisa, “Are the Spanish For or Against Immigration,” in The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area, eds. Korinman
Michel and Laughland John (Edgeware, Middlesex: Vallentine Mitchell Academic, 2007), pp. 152-164.
Session 21: The Persistence of Political Corruption
Required Reading:
Jiménez Francisco, “Building Boom and Political Corruption in Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n.3 (September 2009): pp. 255-272.
Session 22: The Economic Crisis Student-led discussion. Students will bring latest articles on the matter from a selected number of journals.
Session 23: Student presentation of papers
Session 24: Student presentation of papers
Final Exam
Required readings:
AGUILAR Paloma, “Justice, Transition, and Memory in the Spanish Transition,” in The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies, ed. Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen Gónzales Enriquez, and Paloma Aguilar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 92-118.
AGUILAR, Paloma, “The Opposition to Franco, The Transition to Democracy, and the New Political System,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 303-314.
BALFOUR Sebastian, “The Desarollo years, 1955-1975,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 277-288.
BALFOUR Sebastian, “The Reinvention of Spanish Conservatism: The Popular Party since 1989,” in The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Sebastian Balfour (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 146-168.
CLOSA Carlos, “Much Ado About Little: Continuity and Change of the European Union Policy of the Spanish Socialist Government,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n.4 (2009): pp. 503- 518.
ENCARNACION Omar G., “Spain’s New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated?” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 399-415.
GOLOB Stephanie, “Volver: The Return of/to Transitional Justice Politics in Spain," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies v. 9, n.2 (July 2008): pp. 127-141.
HOOPER John, “Centrifugal Forces,” “The Basques,” “The Catalans,” in The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 217-265.
HOOPER John, “Sex: From Francoist Prudery to Gay Marriage,” and “Men and Women: Machismo Meltdown,” in The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 108-133.
JIMENEZ Francisco, “Building Boom and Political Corruption in Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 3 (September 2009): pp. 255-272.
JULIA Santos, “The Socialist Era, 1982-1996,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 331-344.
MAGONE José M., “The Transformation of Spanish Politics: A Review of the Historical Legacy,” in Contemporary Spanish Politics, 2d. ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2009), pp. 1-32.
MATA José Manuel, “Terrorism and Nationalist Conflict: The Weakness of Democracy in the Basque Country,” The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Sebastian Balfour (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 81-105.
MCGINNES John, “Consensus and Controversy in Language Normalisation in Catalunya: The 1999 Law,” Journal of Catalan Studies (October, 1999).
ORTUN RUBIO Marisa, “Are the Spanish For or Against Immigration,” in The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area, eds. Michel Korinman and John Laughland (Edgeware, Middlesex: Vallentine Mitchell Academic, 2007), pp. 152-164.
POWELL Charles, “Spanish Membership of the European Union Revisited,” South European Society and Politics, v. 8, nos. 1-2 (March 2003): pp. 147-168.
RICHARDS Michael, “Civil War, Violence, and the Construction of Francoism,” in The Republic Besieged, ed. Paul Preston and Anne L. Mackenzie (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1996), pp. 197-240.
TREMLETT, Giles, “11-M: Moros y Cristianos,” in Ghosts of Spain (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), pp. 246-280.
Recommended readings:
BALFOUR Sebastian ed., The Politics of Contemporary Spain (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005)
CALVO Kerman, “Sacrifices That Pay: Polity Membership, Political Opportunities and the Recognition of Same-sex Marriage in Spain”. South European Society and Politics, v. 12, n. 3 (2007): pp. 295-314.
CALVO, Kerman and MARTIN Irene, “Ungrateful Citizens? Women’s Rights Policies in Zapatero’s Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 487-502.
CLOSA Carlos and HEYWOOD Paul, Spain and The European Union (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
ENCARNACION Omar, Spanish Politics: Democracy after Dictatorship (New York: Polity Press, 2008)
FIELD Bonnie N. ed., Spain’s Second Transition? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (New York: Routledge, 2010)
FERRANDIZ Ferrándiz, “The Return of Civil War Ghosts: The Ethnography of Exhumations in Contemporary Spain,” Anthropology Today, v. 22, n. 3 (2006): pp. 7-12.
GUNTHER Richard and MONTERO José Ramón, The Politics of Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2009).
HEYWOOD Paul, “Corruption in Contemporary Spain,” Political Science and Politics, v. 44, n.4 (2007): pp. 176-199.
JIMENEZ Fernando, “Political Scandals and Political Responsibility in Democratic Spain,” Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain: No Longer Different?, ed. Paul Heywood (London: Frank Cass, 1999), pp. 80-102.
LABANYI Jo, “Memory and Modernity in Democratic Spain: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with the Spanish Civil War," Poetics Today, v. 28 (Spring 2007): pp. 89-116.
MAGONE José M., Contemporary Spanish Politics, 2d. ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2009).
MCROBERTS Kenneth, Catalonia: Nation Building without a State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
MEES Ludger, Nationalism, Violence, and Democracy: The Basque Clash of Identities (London: Palgrave, 2003)
MURO Diego, Ethnicity and Violence: The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007)
MURO Diego, “Territorial Accomodation, Party Politics, and Statute Reform in Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 453-468.
POWELL Charles, “A Second Transition or More of the Same? Spanish Foreign Policy under Zapatero,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 519-536.
RICHARDS Andrew, “Progressive Failure: Governments, Unions, and the Continuing Marginalization of Immigrants in Spain, South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 469-485.
SANCHEZ-CUENCA Ignacio, “The Persistence of National Terrorism: The Case of Eta,” in Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).
Understanding Contemporary Spain: Politics, Society, History
Why are Spaniards currently exhuming mass graves of the Civil War? How can the country tolerate an unemployment rate of 20 percent? Why has Catalan and Basque nationalism dominated politics for decades? Why does a country with a historic reputation for machismo boast such progressive laws on gender and gay marriages? How come political corruption remains so prevalent? This course examines political and social issues relevant to Spaniards today. It begins by discussing recent history in order to contextualize the major themes of the past few decades. It then moves to those subjects that emerged out of the transition to democracy – regionalism, terrorism, and linguistic pluralism – and still account for many of the peculiarities of Spanish politics. The second half of the course analyzes “Spain’s Second Transition” under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero by focusing on immigration, Islamic fundamentalism, foreign policy, gender and family relations, historical memory, political corruption, and the economic crisis. The course is multi-disciplinary, consisting of a mixture of readings from political science, history, and cultural studies. Each session will consist of a lecture and a class discussion.
Attendance is mandatory for all IES classes, including field studies. Any exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. If a student misses more than three classes in any course half a letter grade will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade.
By the end of the course students will be able to:
• engage directly in debates concerning events in Spain currently covered in the news.
• articulate the historical context of regional tensions in Spain today.
• analyze the tremendous changes that have taken place within Spanish society and culture over the past three decades.
• demonstrate knowledge of the major issues relevant to Spaniards and Europeans today, including immigration, unemployment, the economic crisis, gender relations, and the European Union.
Lectures, class discussions, class presentations.
LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION: English
Class participation (15%); oral presentation (5%);
essay (20%); mid-term exam (30%); final exam (30%)
Students are expected to attend all class sessions prepared to discuss the reading. Students are also required to write an essay (7 pages long; Time New Roman 12; 1.5 lines) that cover the major subjects discussed in the class. Students will be required to give a short presentation on their essays during the final class sessions. The essay will be submitted in hard copy and also sent by email to the professor.
Essay Topics: Students may choose to write on any of the following essay topics. All other essay topics must be cleared in advance with the professor.
1. To what extent has Spanish society come to terms with the legacy of the Civil War, Francoism and the repression?
2. Why has terrorism persisted in the Basque Country despite the advent of democracy?
3. Discuss and evaluate the merits and drawbacks of linguistic normalization in Catalonia.
4. How have gender and family relations changed since the transition to democracy?
5. Discuss and evaluate the challenges that immigration presents in Spain today.
6. Discuss and evaluate the most salient characteristics of Zapatero’s “Second Spanish Transition”?
7. To what extent has Spanish foreign policy (and policy toward the European Union) shifted since the transition to democracy?
Session 1. Introduction to the course.
Session 2. The Construction of the Spanish State
Required Reading:
Magone José M, “The Transformation of Spanish
Politics: A Review of the Historical Legacy,” in
Contemporary Spanish Politics, 2d. ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2009), pp. 1-32.
Session 3.The Legacy of the Past: Francoism and Repression
Required Reading:
Richards Michael, “Civil War, Violence, and the
Construction of Francoism,” in The Republic Besieged, ed. Preston Paul and Mackenzie Anne L. (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1996), pp. 197-240.
Session 4. The Legacy of the Past: Francoism and Development
Required Reading:
Balfour Sebastian, “The Desarollo years, 1955-1975,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. Álvarez
Junco José and Shubert Adrian (New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2000), pp. 277-288
Session 5. The Transition to Democracy
Required Reading:
Aguilar Paloma, “The Opposition to Franco, The Transition to Democracy, and the New Political
System,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. Álvarez Junco José and Shubert Adrian (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 303-314.
Session 6. Political Parties and Governments since the Transition (1)
Required Reading:J
uliá Santos, “The Socialist Era, 1982-1996,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. Álvarez Junco José and Shubert Adrian (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 331-344
Session 7. Political Parties and Governments since the Transition (2)
Required Reading:B
alfour Sebastian, “The Reinvention of Spanish
Conservatism: The Popular Party since 1989,” in
The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Balfour
Sebastian (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), 146-168.
Session 8. The Legacy of the Transition: The Pact of Memory and Forgetting
Required Reading:
Aguilar Paloma, “Justice, Transition, and Memory in the Spanish Transition,” in The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing
Societies, ed. Barahona de Brito Alexandra, Gónzales Carmen, and Aguilar Paloma (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 92-118.
Session 9. The Legacy of the Transition: Regions and Regionalization
Required Reading:
Hooper John, “Centrifugal Forces,” in The New
Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 217-230.
Session 10. Catalan, Basque, and Galician Nationalisms
Required Reading:
Hooper John, “The Basques” and “The Catalans” in
The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin,
2006), pp. 231-265.
Session 11. Controversy in Catalonia: Linguistic Normalization
Required Reading:
MacGinnes John, “Consensus and Controversy in
Language Normalisation in Catalunya: The 1999
Law,” Journal of Catalan Studies (October, 1999)
Session 12. Controversy in the Basque Country: The Persistence of Terrorism
Required Reading:
Mata José Manuel, “Terrorism and Nationalist Conflict: The Weakness of Democracy in the Basque Country,” The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Balfour Sebastian (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 81-105.
Session 13: Review Session
Session 14: Midterm Exam
Session 15: Spanish Foreign Policy and the Terrorist Attacks of 11 March 2004
Required Reading:
Tremlett Giles, “11-M: Moros y Cristianos,” in Ghosts of Spain (London: Faber and Faber,
2006), pp. 246-280.
Session 16: Spain’s Second Transition? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Required Reading:
Encarnación Omar G, “Spain’s New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated?” South
European Society and Politics, v. 14, n.4 (2009): pp. 399-415.
Session 17: Spain and the European Union
Required Reading:
Powell Charles, “Spanish Membership of the European Union Revisited,” South European Society and Politics, v. 8, nos. 1-2 (March 2003): pp. 147-168.
Closa Carlos, “Much Ado About Little: Continuity and Change of the European Union Policy of the Spanish Socialist Government,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 503-
518.
Session 18: Gender, Family, and Marriage
Required Reading:
Hooper John, “Sex: From Francoist Prudery to Gay
Marriage,” and “Men and Women: Machismo
Meltdown,” in The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 108-133.
Session 19: The Exhumation of Mass Graves and the Historic Memory Law
Required Reading:
Golob Stephanie, “Volver: The Return of/to Transitional Justice Politics in Spain," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies v. 9, n.2 (July 2008): pp. 127-141
Session 20: Immigration
Required Reading:
Ortún Rubio Marisa, “Are the Spanish For or Against Immigration,” in The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area, eds. Korinman
Michel and Laughland John (Edgeware, Middlesex: Vallentine Mitchell Academic, 2007), pp. 152-164.
Session 21: The Persistence of Political Corruption
Required Reading:
Jiménez Francisco, “Building Boom and Political Corruption in Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n.3 (September 2009): pp. 255-272.
Session 22: The Economic Crisis Student-led discussion. Students will bring latest articles on the matter from a selected number of journals.
Session 23: Student presentation of papers
Session 24: Student presentation of papers
Final Exam
AGUILAR Paloma, “Justice, Transition, and Memory in the Spanish Transition,” in The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies, ed. Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen Gónzales Enriquez, and Paloma Aguilar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 92-118.
AGUILAR, Paloma, “The Opposition to Franco, The Transition to Democracy, and the New Political System,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 303-314.
BALFOUR Sebastian, “The Desarollo years, 1955-1975,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 277-288.
BALFOUR Sebastian, “The Reinvention of Spanish Conservatism: The Popular Party since 1989,” in The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Sebastian Balfour (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 146-168.
CLOSA Carlos, “Much Ado About Little: Continuity and Change of the European Union Policy of the Spanish Socialist Government,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n.4 (2009): pp. 503- 518.
ENCARNACION Omar G., “Spain’s New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated?” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 399-415.
GOLOB Stephanie, “Volver: The Return of/to Transitional Justice Politics in Spain," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies v. 9, n.2 (July 2008): pp. 127-141.
HOOPER John, “Centrifugal Forces,” “The Basques,” “The Catalans,” in The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 217-265.
HOOPER John, “Sex: From Francoist Prudery to Gay Marriage,” and “Men and Women: Machismo Meltdown,” in The New Spaniards, 2d. ed. (London: Penguin, 2006), pp. 108-133.
JIMENEZ Francisco, “Building Boom and Political Corruption in Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 3 (September 2009): pp. 255-272.
JULIA Santos, “The Socialist Era, 1982-1996,” in Spanish History since 1808, ed. José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 331-344.
MAGONE José M., “The Transformation of Spanish Politics: A Review of the Historical Legacy,” in Contemporary Spanish Politics, 2d. ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2009), pp. 1-32.
MATA José Manuel, “Terrorism and Nationalist Conflict: The Weakness of Democracy in the Basque Country,” The Politics of Contemporary Spain, ed. Sebastian Balfour (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005), pp. 81-105.
MCGINNES John, “Consensus and Controversy in Language Normalisation in Catalunya: The 1999 Law,” Journal of Catalan Studies (October, 1999).
ORTUN RUBIO Marisa, “Are the Spanish For or Against Immigration,” in The Long March to the West: Twenty-First Century Migration in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Area, eds. Michel Korinman and John Laughland (Edgeware, Middlesex: Vallentine Mitchell Academic, 2007), pp. 152-164.
POWELL Charles, “Spanish Membership of the European Union Revisited,” South European Society and Politics, v. 8, nos. 1-2 (March 2003): pp. 147-168.
RICHARDS Michael, “Civil War, Violence, and the Construction of Francoism,” in The Republic Besieged, ed. Paul Preston and Anne L. Mackenzie (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1996), pp. 197-240.
TREMLETT, Giles, “11-M: Moros y Cristianos,” in Ghosts of Spain (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), pp. 246-280.
BALFOUR Sebastian ed., The Politics of Contemporary Spain (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2005)
CALVO Kerman, “Sacrifices That Pay: Polity Membership, Political Opportunities and the Recognition of Same-sex Marriage in Spain”. South European Society and Politics, v. 12, n. 3 (2007): pp. 295-314.
CALVO, Kerman and MARTIN Irene, “Ungrateful Citizens? Women’s Rights Policies in Zapatero’s Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 487-502.
CLOSA Carlos and HEYWOOD Paul, Spain and The European Union (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
ENCARNACION Omar, Spanish Politics: Democracy after Dictatorship (New York: Polity Press, 2008)
FIELD Bonnie N. ed., Spain’s Second Transition? The Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (New York: Routledge, 2010)
FERRANDIZ Ferrándiz, “The Return of Civil War Ghosts: The Ethnography of Exhumations in Contemporary Spain,” Anthropology Today, v. 22, n. 3 (2006): pp. 7-12.
GUNTHER Richard and MONTERO José Ramón, The Politics of Spain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2009).
HEYWOOD Paul, “Corruption in Contemporary Spain,” Political Science and Politics, v. 44, n.4 (2007): pp. 176-199.
JIMENEZ Fernando, “Political Scandals and Political Responsibility in Democratic Spain,” Politics and Policy in Democratic Spain: No Longer Different?, ed. Paul Heywood (London: Frank Cass, 1999), pp. 80-102.
LABANYI Jo, “Memory and Modernity in Democratic Spain: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with the Spanish Civil War," Poetics Today, v. 28 (Spring 2007): pp. 89-116.
MAGONE José M., Contemporary Spanish Politics, 2d. ed. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2009).
MCROBERTS Kenneth, Catalonia: Nation Building without a State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
MEES Ludger, Nationalism, Violence, and Democracy: The Basque Clash of Identities (London: Palgrave, 2003)
MURO Diego, Ethnicity and Violence: The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007)
MURO Diego, “Territorial Accomodation, Party Politics, and Statute Reform in Spain,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 453-468.
POWELL Charles, “A Second Transition or More of the Same? Spanish Foreign Policy under Zapatero,” South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 519-536.
RICHARDS Andrew, “Progressive Failure: Governments, Unions, and the Continuing Marginalization of Immigrants in Spain, South European Society and Politics, v. 14, n. 4 (2009): pp. 469-485.
SANCHEZ-CUENCA Ignacio, “The Persistence of National Terrorism: The Case of Eta,” in Violent Non-State Actors in Contemporary World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).