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[ en ] Unwanted Sons of an Unachieved Democratization: The Case of «Ciutadans».
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Paper proposal to the Workshop on “Anti-democratic Thought” Fourth Annual Conference “Workshops in Political Theory” at the Manchester Metropolitan University, 3-5 September 2007 Comparative politics use to consider Spanish regime change from Franco’s dictatorship to democracy as «the very model of transition». Politics of democratic consolidation, however, has called into question Spanish democracy’s ability to find an adequate framework for cultural pluralism. On the one side, Spanish state difficulties in ensuring the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence (i.e. the persistence of the ETA in the Basque Country) hindered the development of an appropriate institutional design for a multinational democracy. In contrast to the consociationalism of democratic transition times, […]