SPANISH POLITICS

My book on the formation and collapse of the Union of the Democratic Centre, the party that governed Spain through its democratic transition from 1977-82, has been published in both English and Spanish:

Party Formation and Democratic Transition in Spain: The Creation and Collapse of the Union of Democratic Centre. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999. Buy here.

El partido de la transicion. Ascenso y caida de la Union de Centro Democratico. Madrid: Acento Editorial, 2000. Compra aqui.

Other publications on Spanish politics:

Hopkin, J. (2005). 'Spain: Proportional Representation with Majoritarian Outcomes', in M. Gallagher and P. Mitchell (eds.), The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.375-94.

Van Biezen, I. and J. Hopkin (2005) 'The Presidentialization of Spanish Democracy: Sources of Prime Ministerial Power in Post-Franco Spain', in T. Poguntke and P. Webb (eds.), The Presidentialization of Politics in Democratic Societies?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.105-25.

Hopkin, J. (2004). 'From Consensus to Competition: The Changing Nature of Democracy in the Spanish Transition', in Sebastian Balfour (ed.), The Politics of Contemporary Spain. London: Routledge, pp.6-26.

Gunther, R. and J. Hopkin (2002) 'A Crisis of Institutionalization: The Collapse of the UCD in Spain', in R. Gunther, J.R. Montero & J. Linz (eds.), Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.191-230.

Hopkin, J. and A. Mastropaolo (2001) 'From 'Old' to 'New' Clientelism: Comparing the Italian and Spanish Experiences', in S. Piattoni (ed.), Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.152-71.

Hopkin, J. (2001) 'Bringing the Members Back In? Democratizing Candidate Selection in Britain and Spain', Party Politics 7 (3): 343-61.

Hopkin, J. (2001) 'A ''Southern Model'' of Electoral Mobilization? Clientelism and Electoral Politics in post-Franco Spain', West European Politics 24 (1): 115-36.

Hopkin, J. (1999) 'Spain: Political Parties in a Young Democracy', in D. Broughton & M. Donovan (eds.), Changing Party Systems in Western Europe. London: Pinter, pp.207-31.

Hopkin, J. and C. Paolucci (1999) 'New Parties and the Business Firm Model of Party Organization: Cases from Spain and Italy'. European Journal of Political Research 35 (3): 307-339.

Hopkin, J. (1996) 'An Incomplete Alternation: The Spanish Elections of March 1996', International Journal of Iberian Studies 9: 110-6.

Hopkin, J. (1993) 'Reflections on the Disintegration of Union de Centro Democratico', Journal of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies 6: 39-49.

Hopkin, J. (1993) 'La desintegracion de la Union de Centro Democratico: una interpretacion organizativa', Revista de Estudios Politicos 81: 185-210.