Local politics in Spain has triggered iconic shifts over the last few years, and electoral success of new ‘movement parties’ particular dramatically challenged political establishment. Between 2015 2019, many municipalities – including, crucially, two biggest cities, Madrid Barcelona were governed by coalitions originating from anti-austerity, anti-eviction pro-democracy struggles. This significantly affected hegemonic widely normalised discourses supporting neoliberalisation urban politics,...

This article discusses how nationalist regional and state-wide parties, responding to different sub-national party systems dynamics, contribute similarly interregional individual public opinion disagreements about the model of state in new, successfully decentralized democracies. Using survey data other regional-level aggregate measures perform a multilevel analysis 17 Spanish regions, we will show that both types parties (non- parties), following certain system are very important...

Between 2015 and 2019, the Spanish capital, Madrid, was governed by movement party Ahora a novel political actor strongly connected to anti-austerity pro-democracy movements gathered under umbrella of Indignados, or ‘15 M’, movement. Against background party’s abundant hopes for regenerating urban democracy at beginning its term, our research asks how what extent Madrid translated movement’s democratizing practices expectations into concrete policies. Based on own qualitative involving...

This article focuses on the policy process stemming from European cohesion at regional level and its programming stage (which precedes implementation phase). It aims to explain how formally introduced EU ‘partnership’ principles rules work in practice different political environments. The argues that externally procedural decision have impacts effective policymaking processes. In particular, we suggest patterns of social capital linkages carried by actors involved produce networks, even...

In this article, we examine the function of territorial representation by national cabinet ministers in multi-ethnic democracies. particular, observe whether from regions with a specific identity shape distinctive sense executive, and depends on how political parties party system articulate it. Borrowing Pitkin's four dimensions representation, investigate recruitment role three distinct Spanish Basque Country, Catalonia Galicia. This paper stresses that these have played distinctly...

The presence of women in legislatures has steadily increased over the past 2 decades, prompting numerous studies to explore role politics. This article focuses on Spain analyze how contribute parliamentary consensus, a rarely explored but necessary topic times polarization and political conflict. combination aggregated member parliaments’ individual-level data provides holistic approach assessing operate their predisposition Aggregated findings show that an increase female representation...

El artículo analiza la fase de programación política europea cohesión centrándose en el nivel autonómico gobierno. Sostiene que los Fondos Estructurales han afectado manera esencial configuración las políticas desarrollo regional. En particular, europeización regional España ha implicado un papel creciente gobiernos autonómicos, ido adoptando conjunto prácticas y procedimientos homogéneos procesos e implementación cohesión. No obstante, evidencia empírica recogida comunidades autónomas...

El estudio de las instituciones políticas, en general, y particularmente España, ha dedicado una atención limitada al análisis élites aunque se percibe un interés creciente la literatura reciente. No obstante, decisiones que emanan tales están condicionadas por los perfiles, preferencias disposiciones individuos ocupan puestos autoridad. Por ello hace necesario sistemático políticas españolas, especialmente momentos amplia desafección política. Partiendo datos recogidos pionero, este trabajo...