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12 - Europeanization Effects

Statehood and Contentious Politics in Spanish Democracy

from Part IV - Symbolic Power: Identities and Social Protest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2023

By
Philipp Müller
Edited by
Miguel A. Centeno  and
Agustin E. Ferraro
Miguel A. Centeno
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
Agustin E. Ferraro
Affiliation:
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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Summary

Whereas dominant explanations argue that neoliberalism has caused a reorientation of social protests from the nation-state toward policies that emanate from international institutions, the political protests in Spain after 2011 do not correspond to this description. Rather than addressing the European Union, Spanish protesters called the Spanish state of democracy into question. In order to understand the impact of neoliberalism on social protest in Spain, it is crucial to consider its historical entry through the Europeanization of Spanish politics. The Spanish government’s adoption of neoliberal policies during the preparation for EC membership has transformed, not weakened, the state by developing independent decision-making procedures. Consequently, former ties between political elites and civil society actors were destroyed. This created widespread political disenchantment but also resources for ideological and social mobilization that remained unallocated until various newly formed societal groups started to frame the crisis after 2008 as a confrontation between elites and ordinary citizen. The initial success as well as the subsequent difficulties of the new Podemos party reflect a Europeanisation of Spanish politics that has made earlier forms of integrating social protest into political decision-making processes impossible.

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
The Neoliberal State and Beyond
 , pp. 382 - 410
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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