@article{438968,
      author = {Radcliff, Pamela Beth.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438968},
      title = {Making democratic citizens in Spain civil society and the  popular origins of the transition, 1960-78 / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {The book explores the grass-roots contribution of ordinary  men and women to Spain's much-celebrated democratic  transition of the 1970s, through the lens of their  participation in civic associations founded under the  dictatorship. In neighborhood, family and homemaker  associations established in an expanding civil society  between the early 1960s and the late 1970s, Radcliff argues  that participants experimented with new practices of civic  participation that put pressure on the authoritarian state  and constituted the building blocks of a future democratic  citizenship. Whereas most studies of the transition begin  with the formal institutional changes of 1976-78, this book  situates its origins in a complex process that involved  changing state policies, economic and social transformation  and a growing culture of participation. In this analysis,  the 1978 Constitution marked the culmination, rather than  the start, of 'making democratic citizens' and, by  extension, of Spain's democracy.},
      recid = {438968},
      pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 416 p.)},
      address = {Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;},
      year = {2011},
}