Social movements

  1. Eduardo Romanos
Libro:
The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics
  1. Diego Muro (coord.)
  2. Ignacio Lago Peñas (coord.)

Editorial: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191865848

Año de publicación: 2020

Páginas: 465-478

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

Resumen

According to cross-national surveys, Spaniards are among the Europeans who participate the most in street protests. At the same time, Spanish social movements have been generally understood as deploying a less radical protest repertoire and a relatively weak organizational model. Building upon central concepts in social movement studies, this chapter analyses these and other features of the Spanish activist tradition as compared to other Western countries. An especial attention is paid to the strongest protest cycles in Spanish recent history: the years of the democratic transition and the Great Recession. In doing so, this chapter aims to address the long-term effects of regime transition on domestic collective action and organized protest.