From unpopular socialists to the popular party: The Spanish general election of 2011

P Kennedy - West European Politics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… of his party despite … parties, the 2011 general election in Spain indicates that clichés contain
more than an element of truth. Certainly, the PP was not minded to take any risks: the party's

The Popular Party and European integration: re-elaborating the European programme of Spanish conservatism

I Llamazares - South European Society & Politics, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… This article examines the shifts in European position of the Popular Party (PP) in the context
… stream of Spanish conservatism. It finds that the view of Spanish nationalism retaining …

The reinvention of Spanish conservatism: the Popular Party since 1989

S Balfour - The politics of contemporary Spain, 2005 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… right in Spain into a governing party was the result … a party seeking office and then maintaining
power, the PP has faced similar problems of self-definition to the Spanish Socialist Party (…

If it isn't broken, don't fix it: the Spanish Popular Party in power

J Astudillo, E García-Guereta - South european society & politics, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Spanish Popular Party (PP) in a decade in which, after 20 years in opposition, it reached
national government, ruling Spain … This period is characterized by a lack of fundamental party

Spain: The persistence of territorial cleavages and centralism of the Popular Party

BG Fortes, LC Perez - Regional and national elections in Western Europe …, 2013 - Springer
Popular Party (Partido Popular (PP)) has acquired a reputation of a Spanish nationalist
party… state, whereas the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español (…

The breakdown of the Spanish two-party system: the upsurge of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the 2015 general election

L Orriols, G Cordero - South European Society and Politics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… (Partido Popular – PP). On the one hand, Podemos (We Can), a left-wing … radically
changed the Spanish party system, which moved from a two-party system to a multi-party system. …

The Spanish Popular Front and the Civil War

H Graham - The Popular Front in Europe, 1987 - Springer
… Because the PSOE should have formed the bedrock of the Popular Front government …
consolidation of the Spanish Popular Front. The PSOE was the party of the Spanish working class …

Podemos and Ciudadanos shake up the Spanish party system: The 2015 local and regional elections

T Rodon, MJ Hierro - South European Society and Politics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… These left-wing popular candidacies were reproduced in most Spanish cities under the
name Ganemos (Let’s Win), although there was substantial variation across municipalities (for …

Spanish political parties: before and after the election

J Story - Government and Opposition, 1977 - cambridge.org
Popular acted as a catalyst on Spain’s other political groups. Both represent two opposite
poles of the Spanish … Thus, the ‘Centrist’ Popular Party was launched a few days after Alianza …

Spain

P Kennedy - The Palgrave handbook of social democracy in the …, 2013 - Springer
… supportive of the economic policy pursued by the Popular Party government. In government
from 2004, Zapatero did little to improve Spain’s construction-based economic model, …