Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media-government relations, aspirations for independence in Catalonia and the Basque region, and the declining role of religion.

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Laura Chaqués Bonafont is Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona and Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She is the director of the Spanish Policy Agendas Project (www.ub.edu/spanishpolicyagendas). Her main research interests are the analysis of agenda dynamics in comparative perspective, with special reference to the impact of the media, and interest groups.

Anna M. Palau is Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the University of Barcelona and member of the Spanish Policy Agendas Project. Her research focuses on the analysis of policy dynamics, Europeanization, media and public opinion and government-opposition dynamics. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, Journal of Public Policy, and Journal of Legislative Studies, among others.

Frank R. Baumgartner is the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is one of the founders and directors of the US Policy Agendas Project and has published such books as Agendas and Instability in American Politics, The Politics of Attention,and The Politics of Information, all with Bryan D. Jones.

Inhalt
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary
PART I: THEORY AND METHODS

1. Policy dynamics in Democratic Spain
2. Data and methods
   PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN SPAIN
3. Broken promises
4. The government opposition game
5. Media and politics in Spain
   PART III: POLICY ISSUES IN AN AGENDA-DYNAMICS APPROACH
6. Political decentralization
7. Europeanization
8. Framing the abortion debate
   PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
9. Transformations in Spanish Politics, 1982-2013
   References
   Appendices
   Index<B