Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections

The present article approaches the electoral process that took place in March 2008 in Spain, with the goal of reformulating three concerns commonly expressed over the functioning of the Spanish democracy. The first common place is the allegedly exemplary condition of the Spanish democratic transitio...

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Autor principal: Martínez González, Victor Hugo; Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 2013
Materias:
democracia; transición democrática; campaña electoral; liberalismo; partidos políticos
Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/41764
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-047&d=article41764oai
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topic democracia; transición democrática; campaña electoral; liberalismo; partidos políticos
spellingShingle democracia; transición democrática; campaña electoral; liberalismo; partidos políticos
Martínez González, Victor Hugo; Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM
Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections
topic_facet democracia; transición democrática; campaña electoral; liberalismo; partidos políticos
description The present article approaches the electoral process that took place in March 2008 in Spain, with the goal of reformulating three concerns commonly expressed over the functioning of the Spanish democracy. The first common place is the allegedly exemplary condition of the Spanish democratic transition, the second one is the incapacity of politics for the relieving of conflicts, and finally, the growing strength of the two biggest political parties in Spain.The author exhibits that, in the last Spanish elections, one of the fundamental landmarks of the Spanish democratic transition was violated, when Partido Popular made of terrorism a campaign weapon against Partido Socialista Obrero Español. The author points out that this strategy seemed to recall the Mexican elections of 2006, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate for Partido de la Revolución Democrática, was accused of being “a threat to Mexico”. The author argues that the democratic practice is cancelled when respect between legitimate adversaries is substituted for authoritarian defamations between unapproachable enemies.
author Martínez González, Victor Hugo; Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM
author_facet Martínez González, Victor Hugo; Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM
author_sort Martínez González, Victor Hugo; Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM
title Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections
title_short Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections
title_full Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections
title_fullStr Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections
title_full_unstemmed Common places opaque: reflections of the Spanish elections
title_sort common places opaque: reflections of the spanish elections
publisher Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
publishDate 2013
url http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/41764
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