Iberian Military Politics: Controlling the Armed Forces during Dictatorship and Democratisation

by Josï Javier Olivas Osuna

Overview

By applying the nodality, authority, treasure and organisation public policy framework and neo-institutional theory to the dictatorship of Salazar and Franco respectively, this study explores the instruments that governments used to control the military and explains the divergent paths of civil-military relations in 20th Century Portugal and Spain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349459353
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

José Javier Olivas is a Fellow and Associate to LSE IDEAS and the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Co-founder and Editor of Euro Crisis in the Press, as well as Director of the online voting and debate platform Netivist.

Table of Contents

PART I: AMBITIONS AND CHOICES 1. Civil-Military Relations and Policy Instruments 2. An Interdisciplinary Analytical Framework PART II: PORTUGAL 3. History of Contemporary Civil-Military Relations in Portugal 4. The Estado Novo's tools of Government 5. Tools of Government in the Portuguese Transition to Democracy PART III: SPAIN 6. History of Contemporary Civil-Military Relations in Spain 7. Francoist Tools of Government 8. Tools of Government in the Spanish Transition to Democracy PART IV: COMPARISONS AND EXPLANATIONS 9. Comparisons and Explanations 10. Conclusions

Editorial Reviews

The analysis of forms of control of the military in these two regimes is novel and makes a useful contribution to the existing literature. This book will be of interest to researchers concerned with the nature of civil-military relations in non-democratic and democratising regimes.” (Thomas O’Brien, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, February, 2016)

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