Few may have imagined the advancements and the level of reforms that happened below 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 struggle and the Franco dictatorship, handed very revolutionary social laws that included homosexual marriage and adoption as good as a sweeping gender equality act, and extended autonomy in six of Spain’s 17 areas. It has turn into very common to consult a few or all of those advancements as a ‘second transition’ that alters or revisits regulations, institutional preparations and political options that have been confirmed in the course of Spain’s transition to democracy.

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

This ebook used to be released as a unique factor of South ecu Society & Politics.