• PART I INTRODUCTION


• 1: Diego Muro and Ignacio Lago: Introduction


• PART II PAST AND PRESENT OF SPANISH POLITICS


• 2: Robert M. Fishman: Spain in Comparative Perspective: Contributors of the Spanish Case to Comparative Political Analysis


• 3: Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca: Spanish Democratization Transition, Consolidation, and its Meaning in Contemporary Spain


• 4: Omar G. Encarnación: The Political Uses of Forgetting in Spain


• 5: César Colino: Decentralization in Spain: Federal Evolution and Performance of the Estado Autonómico


• 6: Diego Muro: Terrorism in Spain


• 7: Miguel Requena: Economic and Social Changes since the Restoration of Democracy


• 8: Sebastián Royo: The Causes and Legacy of the Great Recession in Spain


• 9: Javier Arregui: Europeanisation of Political Structures and Public Policies


• PART II INSTITUTIONS


• 10: Josep M Colomer: Political Institutions in a Comparative Perspective


• 11: Josep M. Vallés: The 1978 Spanish Constitutional Design: Assessing its Outcome


• 12: Juan Rodríguez-Teruel: Executive Politics in Spain


• 13: Bonnie N. Field: Legislative Politics in Spain


• 14: Sandra León and Ignacio Jurado: Multi-level Governance in Spain


• 15: Salvador Parrado: Public Administration and its Problem-Solving Capacities


• 16: Nuno Garoupa and Pedro C. Magalhães: Judicial Politics: The Constitutional Court


• 17: Rafael Martínez: The Spanish Army


• 18: Joan Font: The Quality of Democracy


• PART III PARTIES, ELECTIONS, AND VOTERS


• 19: Mariano Torcal and Pablo Christmann: Political Culture in Spain in the 21st Century: Symptoms of a Crisis of Representation


• 20: Mónica Méndez Lago: Parties and Party Systems


• 21: José Ramón Montero and Andrés Santana: Elections in Spain


• 22: Marta Fraile and Enrique Hernández: Determinants of Voting Behaviour


• 23: Agustí Bosch: The Spanish Electoral System


• 24: Pedro Riera: Turnout


• PART IV CIVIL SOCIETY


• 25: Susana Aguilar: Interest Groups, Business Associations, and Trade Unions


• 26: Sergi Pardos-Prado: Migration Politics: The End of Spanish Exceptionalism?


• 27: Eduardo Romanos: Social Movements


• 28: Xosé M. Nuñez Seixas: Spanish Nationalism Since 1975


• 29: María José Hierro: Regional and National Identities in Spain


• PART V PUBLIC POLICY AND POLICY MAKING


• 30: Joan Subirats and Ricard Gomà: Public Policy and Policy-Making


• 31: Eloísa del Pino: Welfare State


• 32: Leire Salazar: Social Inequalities


• 33: José Fernández Albertos: Economic Policy-Making in Contemporary Spain


• 34: Mariely López Santana: Employment Policy in Spain: Policy and Governance Perspectives


• 35: Héctor Cébolla-Boado: Education Policy


• 36: Tània Verge: Gender Policy


• 37: Manuel Villoria: Corruption and TransparencyX


• PART VI THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA


• 38: Ramón Pacheco Pardo: Spanish Foreign Policy


• 39: Félix Arteaga: Security and Defence Policy


• 40: Ignacio Molina: Spain in the EU: Preferences, Policy Process, and Influence in Brussels


• 41: Andrea C. Bianculli: Spain and Latin America: From a Special Relation to Detachment?

Diego Muro is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include political violence, terrorism, nationalism, and ethnic conflict. He has published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Mediterranean Politics, Nations and Nationalism, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, South European Society & Politics, and West European Politics. His latest book is When Does Terrorism Work? (Routledge, 2019).
Ignacio Lago is Professor of Political Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona,Spain). His research interests include electoral systems, political behaviour, and party politics. His recent publications have appeared in Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, Social Science Quarterly and Public Opinion Quarterly. He has won a 2018 ICREA Academia Award.

The Oxford Handbook of Spanish Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Spanish political system through the lens of political science.