Political Economy of Spain
Essay Question: Critically assess the claim that the Spanish state is an example of a neo-corporatist state.
*Please refer to the Level 6 instructions VERY IMPORTANT
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*Include authors in the core readings but also authors from your own research and additional readings.
*When you outline your main argument, always back up authors but also with your personal opinion.
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*Include readings below in order to achieve a better quality paper research but also ideas from other books not listed below.
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Essential Reading
Martinez-Alier, J. and Roca, J. (1987). ‘Spain after Franco: From Corporatist Ideology to Corporatist Reality’, International Journal of Political Economy, 17(4)
Heywood, P. (1998). ‘Power diffusion or concentration? In search of the Spanish policy process’, West European Politics, 21(4): 103-123
Atentas, J.M (2016), ‘Podemos and the Spanish political crisis’, Labor History, Nov 2016, pp. 1-22.
Further Reading
Albarracin, J. (994). La gran noche neoliberal. Madrid: ICARIA
Chari, R.S. (1998). ‘Spanish Socialists, Privatising the Right Way?’, West European Politics, 21(4): 163-179
Ellwood (1976). ‘The Working Class under the Franco Regime’, P. Preston (ed.), Spain in crisis. Hassocks: Harvester.
Giner, S. (1982). ‘Political Economy, Legitimation and the State in Southern Europe’, The British Journal of Sociology, 33(2): 172-199
Giner, S. and Sevilla, E. (1980). ‘From Despotism to Parliamentarism: Class Domination and Political Order in the Spanish State’, R. Scase The State in Western Europe, London: Croom Helm
Jessop, B. (1977) ‘Recent Theories of the Capitalist State’. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1(3): 353-373
Harman, C. (1998). The fire last time, 1968 and after. London: Bookmarks. Ch. 15
Heywood, P. (1995). The Government and Politics of Spain. London: MacMillan Press. Ch.10
Holman, O. (1996). Integrating Southern Europe. London: Routledge
Jessop, B. (2002). The Future of the Capitalist State. Cambridge: Polity Press
Jones, R.J.B. (2000). The World Turned Upside Down: Globalization and the Future of the Nation State, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Sections 21-57, 69, 92, 99, 112.
Martinez-Lucio, M. and Blyton, P. (1995). ‘Constructing the Post-Fordist State? The Politics of Labour Market Flexibility in Spain’, West European Politics, 18.
Navarro, V. (1989) ‘Politicalde Reconversion Industrial en Espana’, Informacion Comercial Espanola, Enero: 45-69
Perez, S.A. (2000). ‘From Decentralization to Reorganisation. Explaining the Return to National Bargaining in Italy and Spain’, Comparative Politics, 32 (4)
Perez Diez, V. (1984). ‘Politicas economicas y pautas sociales en la Espana de la transicion:
Petras, J.F. (1990).’Spanish Socialism: On the Road to Marvella’, Crime, Law, and Social Change, 14: 189-217
Rigby, M. and Lawlor, T. (1994). ‘Spanish trade unions 1986-1994; life after national agreements’, Industrial Relations Journal, 25(4) (good introductory text)
Royo, S. (2002). ‘A New Century of Corporatism? Corporatism in Spain and Portugal’, West European Politics, 25(3): 77-104
Share, D. (1988). ‘Spain: Socialists as Neoliberals’, Socialist Review.
Share, D. (1988b). ‘Dilemmas of Social Democracy in the 1980s. The Spanish Socialist Workers Party in Comparative Perspectives’, Comparative Political Studies, 21(3): 408-435
Share, D. (1987). ‘Two Transitions: Democratisation and the Evolution of the Spanish Socialist Left’, Comparative Political Studies, 19(4): 525-548
Shonfield, A. (1965) Modern Capitalism. Oxford: OUP, 121-192
Taylor, P.J. (1994) ‘The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System’, Progress in Human Geography, 18(2): 151-162
Tilly, C. (1992). Coercion, Capital and European States AD 990-1990, Oxford: Blackwell. Chs 1,2,3
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