The Return of Civil Society

by Perez-Diaz, Victor M.

• ISBN13: 9780674766891
• ISBN10: 067476689X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-21
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

Victor Pe; rez-Diaz examines the return of civil society in Spain. He covers the transition of Spain from a preindustrial economy, an authoritarian government, and a Roman Catholic-dominated culture to a modern state based on the interaction of economic and class interests, on a market society, on voluntary associations such as trade unions and political parties, and on a culture of moral autonomy and rationality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 The Emergence of Democratic Spain	1	(53)
2 The Return of Civil Society	54	(54)
3 The Church and Religion in Contemporary Spain: An Institutional Metamorphosis	108	(76)
4 Region, Economy, and the Scale of Governance: Mesogovernments in Spain	184	(52)
5 The Spanish Workers: Between Radicalism and Moderation	236	(45)
6 Unions' Uncertainties and Workers' Ambivalence: The Moral Dimension	281	(32)
Notes	313	(18)
Bibliography	331	(16)
Index	347