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Institutional Suicide and Elite Coordination: The Spanish Transition Revisited

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  • Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca
  • Luis Fernando Medina

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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.

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  • Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca & Luis Fernando Medina, 2019. "Institutional Suicide and Elite Coordination: The Spanish Transition Revisited," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 463-484, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fsesxx:v:24:y:2019:i:4:p:463-484
    DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2019.1694282
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