Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)

Brand: Cambridge University Press

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UPC:
9780521628853
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
5/28/1998
Release Date:
4/16/1998
Author:
Laura Desfor Edles
Language:
english
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This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the transition to democracy of post-Franco Spain. Since General Franco's death in 1975, Spanish political life has seen an extraordinarily quiescent period of consensus, unique in its own history. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to this strategy of consensus and institutionalization of democracy, and uncovers the processes of symbolization and ritualization that characterize it.