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Spanish Politics and Society

Spanish Politics and Society. Hispanic & European Studies Program Fall 2009 Raimundo Viejo Viñas Office 20.182 www.raimundoviejo.info raimundo.viejo@upf.edu. Institutions of Spanish Democracy, 1. Political parties and party system. What’s a political party?.

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Spanish Politics and Society

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  1. Spanish Politics and Society Hispanic & European Studies Program Fall 2009 Raimundo Viejo Viñas Office 20.182 www.raimundoviejo.info raimundo.viejo@upf.edu

  2. Institutions of Spanish Democracy, 1 Political parties and party system

  3. What’s a political party? • A political partyis a group of people that is organised for the purpose of winning government power by electoral (or other) means. • Political parties as such: • … aim to exercise government power by winning political office • … are organised bodies with a formal membership • … adopt a broad issue focus, addressing each area of government policy • … are united by shared political preferences

  4. Main functions of political parties • Representation • Elite formation and recruitment • Goal formulation • Interest articulation and aggregation • Socialization and mobilization • Organization of government

  5. Types of political parties • Caucus parties (elite parties) and mass parties • Catch-all parties and electoral-professional parties • Media parties and Cartel parties • Post-materialist parties (green parties, animal rights parties, etc)

  6. Government Formation: Parliamentary Systems

  7. Spanish Political Parties • Left-right cleavage (socio-economic dimension) • Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE (center-left wing party) • Partido Popular, PP (right-wing party) • Izquierda Unida, IU (federation of left-wing parties) • Centre-periphery cleavage (territorial dimension) • Convergència i Unió (Catalan liberal and christian-democratic coalition) • Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea(Basque christian-democratic party) • Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Catalan pro-independence party) • Bloque Nacionalista Galego (Galician nationalist coalition) • Coalición Canaria, Chunta Aragonesista, and others.

  8. Centre-right party positions

  9. Spanish party system, 1 • Spanish democratic elections can be separated in four different phases: • 1977 and 1979 founding elections (UCD governments) • 1982-1989 Socialist absolute majorities (sudden disappearance of the UCD) • 1993-2008 Conservatives and Socialists alternating majorities

  10. Spanish Party system • Main features of Spanish party system • Electoral volatility • Party-system fragmentation • Governability and competitiveness • Moderation

  11. Electoral volatility

  12. Party-system fragmentation

  13. Governability and competitiveness

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