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The New Mediterranean Democracies
This volume, first published in 1984, discusses the viability of applying the Mediterranean model to three countries that were transitioning to democracy, Spain, Greece and Portugal combining both comparative and national case-study approaches. In particular, Spain, Greece and Portugal offer comparable examples of the problems of establishing new democratic systems within relatively unstable and economically less developed environments.
This title applies different theories of regime transition to the countries in question, and will be of interest to students of politics and European studies.
The New Mediterranean Democracies
Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal
Edited by Geoffrey Pridham
First published in 1984
by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd
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THE NEW MEDITERRANEAN DEMOCRACIES: REGIME TRANSITION IN SPAIN, GREECE AND PORTUGAL
Edited by
Geoffrey Pridham
First published in 1984 in Great Britain by
FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED
Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsborough Road,
London, E11 1RS
and in the United States of America by
FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED
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Copyright 1984 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The New Mediterranean democracies.
1. Spain- History---1975 2. PortugalHistory 1974 3. GreeceHistory1974
I. Pridham, Geoffrey
946.083 DP272
ISBN 0714632449
This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on The New Mediterranean Democracies: Regime Transition in Spain, Greece and Portugal of West European Politics, Vol. 7, No. 2, published by Frank Cass and Co. Ltd.
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Contents
Geoffrey Pridham
Kenneth Medhurst
P. Nikiforos Diamandouros
Thomas C. Bruneau
Mario Caciagli
Christos Lyrintzis
J.R. Lewis and A.M. Williams
Salvador Giner
Alfred Tovias
Giuseppe Di Palma
List of Tables and Figures
Thomas C. Bruneau is Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. In 1983 he was the Senior Program Associate at the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He has been researching in Portugal since 1973 and has published a dozen scholarly articles and co-authored one book. His Politics and Nationhood: Post-Revolutionary Portugal was published by Praeger in January 1984. With Alex Macleod, he is currently conducting a large research project on politics in Portugal ten years after the revolution on 25 April 1974.
Mario Caciagli is Professor of Political Sociology at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Catania. He has authored and edited many publications in the area of parties and elections in Italy, West Germany and Spain, such as Democrazia cristiana e potere nel Mezzogiorno (1977) Il voto di chi non vota (with P. Scaramozzino) (1983) and Elezioni e partiti nella Spagna postfranchista (forthcoming).
P. Nikiforos Diamandouros is Staff Associate responsible for Western Europe and the Near and Middle East at the Social Science Research Council (USA). His most recent publications include La transicin del autoritarismo a la democracia en Grecia, in Julian Santamaria (ed.) La transicin a la democracia en el sur de Europa y Amrica Latina (Madrid: CIS, 1982); Southern Europe: An Introductory Bibliographical Essay, (Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, 1980); and Greek Political Culture: Historical Origins, Evolution, Current Trends,in Richard Clogg (ed.), Greece in the 1980s, (London: Macmillan, 1983).
Salvador Giner is Reader in Sociology and Head of the Sociology Department, Brunel University, London. His interest in social theory is reflected in a number of books (such as Mass Society, 1975) and general essays on corporatism, inequality and the history of social thought. His empirical work concentrates on the comparative study of European social structures, with special attention to southern Europe. He is the co-editor and co-author of two companion volumes on Contemporary Europe (1971 and 1979), one short book on The Social Structure of Catalonia (second, revised edition 1984), a comparative study of the political economy of southern Europe (1980, and various later revisions), and several studies on the social structure and politics of contemporary Spain.
James R. Lewis is Lecturer in Geography at Durham University. His research interests are in the area of development and uneven regional development, and he has fieldwork experience in southern Europe, eastern Africa and Indonesia. He has co-edited with Ray Hudson the following books: Regions in Crisis (1980), Regional Planning in Europe (1982) and Accumulation, Class and the State in Southern Europe (1984).
Christos Lyrintzis has been a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is: Between Socialism and Populism: the rise of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
Kenneth Medhurst is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Stirling. His publications include Government in Spain (1973), The Basques and Catalans, report for the Minority Rights Group (1977) and The Catholic Church and Labour in Colombia (1984). He is also preparing books on Contemporary Spanish Politics, The Catholic Church and Politics in Latin America and The Church and Politics in a Secular Age (with George Moyser).
Giuseppe Di Palma is professor and chairman, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. In the last few years he has been working on regime changes and the problem of regime performance in post-dictatorial democracies. References to relevant publications are found in his contribution to this issue.
