Spain: Country Study with Multidisciplinary Analysis of Political, Economic, Social, and National Security Systems and Institutions, Spanish People, Origins, Beliefs and Values

This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies — Area Handbook Program. The books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists. The authors seek to provide a basic understanding of the observed society, striving for a dynamic rather than a static portrayal. Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.

Contents include: Chapter 1. Historical Setting * IBERIA * HISPANIA * AL ANDALUS * CASTILE AND ARAGON * THE GOLDEN AGE * Ferdinand and Isabella * Charles V and Philip II * Spain in Decline * BOURBON SPAIN * War of the Spanish Succession * The Enlightenment * The Napoleonic Era * THE LIBERAL ASCENDANCY * The Cadiz Cortes * Rule by Pronunciamiento * Liberal Rule * THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY * The Cuban Disaster and the Generation of 1898 * The African War and the Authoritarian Regime of Miguel Primo de Rivera * REPUBLICAN SPAIN * THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR * THE FRANCO YEARS * Franco's Political System * Policies, Programs, and Growing Popular Unrest * Foreign Policy under Franco * THE POST-FRANCO ERA * Transition to Democracy * Disenchantment with UCD Leadership * Growth of the PSOE and the 1982 Elections * Spanish Foreign Policy in the Post-Franco Period * Chapter 2. The Society and Its Environment * GEOGRAPHY * External Boundaries and Landform Regions * Drainage * Climate * POPULATION * Size and Growth * Regional Disparities * Migration * ETHNICITY AND LANGUAGE * Government Policies * The Catalans * The Galicians * The Basques * The Andalusians * The Gypsies * SOCIAL STRATIFICATION * SOCIAL VALUES AND ATTITUDES * RELIGION * EDUCATION * Primary and Secondary Education * Higher Education * HEALTH AND WELFARE * Health Conditions and Mortality * Public Safety and Environmental Problems * Housing * Government Health and Welfare Programs * Chapter 3. The Economy * Benjamin Martin * CHARACTER AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY * The Franco Era, 1939-75 * The Post-Franco Period, 1975-1980s * ROLE OF GOVERNMENT * Economic Ministries * Budget and Fiscal Policy * HUMAN RESOURCES * The Unemployment Problem * The Underground Economy * Labor Relations in the Franco Era * Labor Relations in the Post-Franco Period * AGRICULTURE * Agricultural Development * Regional Variation * Crops * Livestock * Forestry * Fisheries * Food Processing * INDUSTRY * Industrial Development * Regional Concentration * National Industrial Institute * Manufacturing and Construction * Mining * ENERGY * Petroleum * Coal * Natural Gas * Electricity * SERVICES * Banking * Stock Market Exchanges * Transportation and Communications * Tourism * FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS * Trading Partners * Foreign Investment * Spain and the European Community * Chapter 4. Government and Politics * Jo Ann Browning Seeley * CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM * The 1978 Constitution * Electoral System * GOVERNMENT * The Cortes * The King, the Prime Minister, and the * Council of Ministers * The Judiciary * Regional Government * Local Government * more