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SPAIN UNDER FRANCO: THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME *
Author(s) -
HERMET GUY
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1976.tb00535.x
Subject(s) - dictatorship , authoritarianism , technocracy , ideology , pity , marxist philosophy , sociology , character (mathematics) , political economy , positive economics , social science , political science , epistemology , law , economics , politics , democracy , philosophy , art , geometry , literature , mathematics
The last of the traditional counter‐revolutionary dictatorships in Europe and the first authoritarian technocratic regime which claims to reconcile economic development with a tight social control, the many‐sided dictatorship of General Franco covers a complex network of varied and at times contradictory social and ideological elements which form a sort of compendium of contemporary conservative authoritarianisms. It is a pity that serious studies of such a regime are so rare, despite, its duration. The question remains whether any fundamental study of Francoist Spain exists. No‐one has as yet examined methodically the application to Spain of the Marxist concept of Bonapartism or Gramsci's notion of Caesarism, nor even explored to the full the term fascism which is bandied about at random. It is in fact the functionalist analyses which are the most reliable and systematic of the existing studies; there is but a single researcher, Juan J. Linz, who can take the credit for this.