Franco Regime: Ideological and Political Nature in Spain
Franco Regime: Ideological and Political Nature
There are different theoretical approaches in contemporary political science in relation to the ideological and political nature of the Franco regime.
Juan Linz’s Thesis on Authoritarianism
When Juan Linz published his thesis, he discussed the authoritarian nature of Franco’s political regime. This started a theoretical and methodological polemic that is still not resolved.
Linz defined authoritarian systems as:
- Political systems with limited political
Unification Decree of 1937: Franco’s Rise and Spain’s Single Party
Unification Decree 1937
Classification
This primary source document is a legal-political text from the Spanish Civil War. It was written on April 19, 1937, by General Francisco Franco and published the following day in the State’s Official Gazette.
Franco, a key figure in the conspiracy against the republican democracy, leveraged his military experience in the Moroccan War to command the army guarding the protectorate starting July 18, 1936.
Analysis
The decree presents two main ideas: First, Franco
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The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a social, political, and military conflict that took place in Spain between the pronouncement of July 17 and 18, 1936, and the last part of the war signed by Francisco Franco on April 1, 1939.
It is also commonly referred to as the War in Spain, a name shared with other nineteenth-century civil wars (the Carlist Wars).
The contending factions called themselves the National side (the victors, organized around the military rebels) and the Republican side
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The Moderate Decade (1844-1854)
From the ideological standpoint, moderates defended the sovereignty shared between the king and the courts, rejecting the militia. On the contrary, progressives defended national sovereignty, militia, and free trade. With Narvaez as president, in addition to the incorporation of 1845, other measures were adopted. In 1846, political life was dominated by the intrigues around the future marriage of Isabel II. In the following years,
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Demographic and Social Changes
In 1900, Spain’s population exceeded 18 million. The nation experienced a demographic recovery following the late 19th-century crisis, marked by a significant decrease in mortality and a slight decline in birth rates. Significant migratory processes were directed towards Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Madrid, with people leaving economically depressed regions like Extremadura, Andalusia, and
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Ancien Régime
The name given by French revolutionaries to the era before the 1789 revolution.
Seignorialism
Land owned by a lord and on which peasants work, paying taxes to the lord for the use of manorial monopolies (mills, warehouses, etc.).
Guild
An economic partnership that brought together artisans of the same trade. Their goal was to balance work demands and the number of active workshops, ensuring the work of their members, their economic welfare, and learning systems.
Old Demographic Cycle
The
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