Citation

Sánchez-Cuenca I, Medina LF. S. Eur. Soc. Polit. 2019; 24(4): 463-484.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13608746.2019.1694282

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Language: en

Keywords

Spain; legislation; literature review; institutional framework; coordination; elite politics; political reform; Democratisation; democratization; elites; parliament