Publication: Los estudios de cultura política en España
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1999
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Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS)
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Los estudios de cultura política han tenido un papel muy destacado en la investigación sociopolítica española. El decenio comprendido entre mediados de los sesenta y la muerte de Franco marca la recepción del paradigma clásico de la cultura política y los primeros pasos de su aplicación en los estudios del proceso de modernización, en los análisis de la evolución del régimen franquista y en los atisbos iniciales del inevitable cambio político. Por su parte, las interpretaciones más difundidas sobre la naturaleza de la transición política hicieron hincapié en la existencia de unos prerrequisitos culturales que facilitaron la democratización. Ello hizo posible que las élites llegaran a establecer un pacto básico sobre el que se construyó, en un lapso de tiempo muy breve, una democracia comparable a la de los países de la Europa occidental. A lo largo de los años ochenta y noventa se ha mantenido el interés por el estudio de la cultura política de los españoles. Sin embargo, la rutinización de la vida democrática ha dado lugar a un cierto cambio de énfasis en la agenda de los temas de investigación.
Studies on political culture have played a very important role in Spanish socio-political research. The ten-year period from the mid-1960s to the death of Franco marks the reception of the classic paradigm of political culture and the first steps towards its application in studies on the modernisation process, in the analyses of the evolution of the Franco regime and in the first indications of the inevitable political change. The most widespread interpretations of the nature of the political transition emphasised the existence of a set of cultural prerequisites which facilitated democratisation. This enabled the elites to establish a basic pact on which a democracy comparable with that of the countries of Western Europe was built, in a very short period of time. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, there has been a sustained interest in studying the political culture of Spaniards. Notwithstanding, now that democratic life has become routine, a certain shift of emphasis has been denoted in the topics researched.
Studies on political culture have played a very important role in Spanish socio-political research. The ten-year period from the mid-1960s to the death of Franco marks the reception of the classic paradigm of political culture and the first steps towards its application in studies on the modernisation process, in the analyses of the evolution of the Franco regime and in the first indications of the inevitable political change. The most widespread interpretations of the nature of the political transition emphasised the existence of a set of cultural prerequisites which facilitated democratisation. This enabled the elites to establish a basic pact on which a democracy comparable with that of the countries of Western Europe was built, in a very short period of time. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, there has been a sustained interest in studying the political culture of Spaniards. Notwithstanding, now that democratic life has become routine, a certain shift of emphasis has been denoted in the topics researched.