Spain: Democracy Regained, Second Edition
- ISBN-10
- 042997423X
- ISBN-13
- 9780429974236
- Series
- Spain
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-11
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- E. Ramon Arango
Description
Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has passed from repression through renewal to democracy, restored for the first time since 1936. Having survived the threat to its very existence in 1981, democratic Spain-now a member of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-seems as secure as any of its European neighbours. The acce
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