Spanish and Latin American Transitions to Democracy

This volume, now available in paperback, compares the Spanish and Latin American double transitions to liberal democracy and an open-market economy. Spain's transitions in the 1960s-1980s have become the paradigmatic case of successful institutional transformation, and thus the standard for the evaluation of the economic and political change in Latin America and Central/Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Even though most Latin American countries have transformed their economies and polities …