Democratic Practice explains why democracies diverge in their de facto commitment to political inclusion. The book extracts large lessons from the comparison of Spain and Portugal, showing how cultural legacies of national pathways to democracy have shaped assumptions about political conduct, which generate multiple consequences in economic, cultural and political life.

• Preface


• Chapter 1. How Democratic Practice Varies by Country: Legacies of Historical Pathways to Democracy


• Chapter 2. Messages of Transition: Fundamental Contrasts between Portugal and Spain


• Chapter 3. Democratic Practice in Action


• Chapter 4. How Democratic Practice Matters


• Chapter 5. How the Cultural Frameworks Underpinning Democratic Practice Shaped the Politics of Crisis: Testing the Argument in the Age of Austerity


• Chapter 6: Does National Conflict within Spain Undermine or Reinforce the Argument? The Catalan Crisis and its Antecedents


• Chapter 7. Change or Continuity in Cultures? Theorizing the Iberian Peninsula Experience


• Conclusions: On the Global Significance of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion

Robert M. Fishman is CONEX-Marie Curie Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Madrid's Carlos III University. He works on democracy and democratization, social protest movements and political inclusion, culture and politics, and historical approaches to social science. His previous faculty positions were at the University of Notre Dame and at Harvard University.