El conservadurismo liberal y la Restauraciónuna explicación de las causas de la crisis del régimen liberal en España

Abstract

It is necessary to rethink the causes of the crisis of the restoration liberal regime in Spain, and discuss the matter from a new perspective. There are many indicators to reject the thesis that the forces of the regime were in general and in all aspects basic refractary to any reform. This is particularly striking regarding the conservative party, whose ideological nature and whose policies between 1876 and 1923 are analyzed in this study. The conservative party was a liberal force contrary to � [+]the revolution, but too bent to accept certain reforms. This political force showed this reformist attitude especially in the social policy. In the context of the subsequent years to 1914, that policy was developed to such a level that the party finally placed itself n a position that did not match to the dominant approaches in the conservative classes. The wide support received in September 1923 by the military and rightist coup the etat of general Primo de Rivera is closely linked to the large reject to the upper classes of society to the reformist politics of the regime started after 1917.