Abstract
As a commonly admired model of a consensual transition and rapid democratic consolidation, Spain is perhaps better researched than any of the other European “third-wave” democracies. Despite significant theoretical and empirical progress on the transition to democracy, democratic consolidation and institution building, however, the literature on post-Franco Spain continues to suffer from several weaknesses. Research on political parties in particular, while rich in empirical detail and wide in theoretical range, has thus far led to contradictory conclusions, or is at least inconclusive on a number of counts. Above all, there is a lack of consensus about the extent of variation that exists between parties in younger democracies and whether patterns of party development relative to the longer established Western European democracies should be seen in terms of convergence or divergence.1
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