This chapter focuses on the interaction among the regime, the Communists, and the rest of
the opposition during the transitional years of 1973-1977. Many in the Spanish political elite …

By Eusebio M. Mujal-Leon he serious illness which struck Francisco Franco last summer
and the uncertainty surrounding his succession have underlined the increasing political …

In the brief political history of Eurocommunism, which emerged as a public international
current in 1974 and has lived only the shadowiest existence since the break-up of the Union …

This chapter explores some of the reasons for the communist failure in june 1977 and efforts
undertaken by the Partido Comunista de Espana (PCE) in the months after the elections to …

The landslide victory of the PSOE during the election of 28 October 1982 and its entry into
government with an absolute majority in the Cortes, permit us to consider the long transition …

When Lipset and Rokkan planned Party Systems and Voter Alignments, one of us wrote a
chapter on “The Party System of Spain, Past and Future”(Linz 1967). At that time Spain was …

By Eusebio Mujal-Leon ittle morn than a year after participating in the first free Spanish
parliamentary elections in over 40 years, the Partido Comunista de Espafia (PCE) stands at …

AS LONG AS FRANCO LIVED, ALL MILITARY, LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE powers
centred on his person. Regional autonomies were suppressed, unions outlawed and …

When the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975, it was widely believed
by European political analysts that the Partido Comunista de Espafia (PCE) would be a …