Spain's New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated?

Encarnación, Omar G.

doi:10.1080/13608740903503811

Cited by 34 publications

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“…Finally, in 2011, a modification of article 135 of the Spanish Constitution,on the deficit golden rule (the estabilidad presupuestaria), was agreed upon by the PP and the PSOE. Moreover, the turn towards market liberalism in the PSOE can be dated back to the 1980s, after it rejected Marxist analysis during a well‐known congress in 1979 (Encarnación, , p. 413).…”

Section: Spain and Italy: Similar Crisis And Similar Cartelization?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Podemos and the Five Stars Movement: Divergent trajectories in a similar crisis

Vittori

2017

Constellations

108

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Section: Spain and Italy: Similar Crisis And Similar Cartelization?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Podemos and the Five Stars Movement: Divergent trajectories in a similar crisis

Vittori

2017

Constellations

108

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“…Zapatero had become leader of the PSOE in 2000, following a period of internal crisis and crushing electoral defeats for the party in 1996 and 2000. This crisis gave rise to a new leadership, including Zapatero, with few ties to the old generation of party notables (Encarnación 2009; Field 2009). Zapatero and his allies seized the opportunity to put the party on a new path and reach out to new political constituencies—like youth, who were largely disengaged from politics.…”

Section: Explaining Reactions To Parity Cabinets: Origins and Executimentioning

confidence: 99%

Resisting Parity: Gender and Cabinet Appointments in Chile and Spain

Franceschet

Thomas

2015

Pol & Gen

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Presidents and prime ministers possess vast powers of appointment. These powers can be used to appoint cabinets with an equal number of male and female ministers. Parity cabinets make dramatic statements about gender, representation, and political power. They imply that gender balance—rather than just adding some women—is needed to overcome women's political marginalization. Cabinets with just a few token women are insufficient and undemocratic. Yet appointing women in the same proportions as men challenges a status quo in which men occupy most of the positions of power. Even when leaders possess the formal authority to appoint ministers, forming a parity cabinet means that some existing practices and norms, particularly the norm of male dominance, have been broken. Parity cabinets thus create the possibility of backlash from those who fear reduced opportunities for men to access powerful posts.

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“…When José Zapatero was elected party leader in 2000, a gradual rejuvenation of the party began. The negative feedback effect (H3) from electoral defeat and damaging corruption practices heralded a change of generation in the PSOE leadership (Encarnación, 2006) as well as the introduction of more democratic measures to elect candidates (Méndez Lago, 2006). These changes led to an increased emphasis on post-material and identity issues.…”

Section: Spain: Immediate Moderationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will to power? Intra-party conflict in social democratic parties and the choice for neoliberal policies in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain (1980–2010)

Marx

Schumacher

2012

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Why do social democrats choose neoliberal labor market policies? Since social democrats are typically punished for welfare state retrenchment and because these policies do not equate well with social democratic egalitarian principles, it is difficult to see what they gain from it. We argue that, depending on the intra-party balance of power between activists and leaders, some parties are office-seeking, whereas others are policy-seeking. This behavioral difference explains why some parties are responsive to environmental incentives such as the economy and public opinion (office-seeking parties) and others are responsive to policy-motivated activists (policy-seeking parties). Using three case studies of social democratic parties (Germany, the Netherlands and Spain) in the period 1980–2010, we analyze when and why these parties introduced neoliberal reforms. The study shows that office-seeking parties introduce neoliberal measures if the risk of losing votes due to an underperforming economy becomes larger than the risk of losing votes due to the mobilization of unions and opposition parties. Policy-seeking social democrats retain a social democratic ideology, unless prolonged failure to win office empowers pragmatic leaders to push through office-seeking strategies.

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Spain's New Left Turn: Society Driven or Party Instigated?

Cited by 34 publications

References 20 publications

Podemos and the Five Stars Movement: Divergent trajectories in a similar crisis

Podemos and the Five Stars Movement: Divergent trajectories in a similar crisis

Resisting Parity: Gender and Cabinet Appointments in Chile and Spain

Will to power? Intra-party conflict in social democratic parties and the choice for neoliberal policies in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain (1980–2010)

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