José María Maravall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3898256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José María Maravall |
| GIVEN NAMES | José María |
| FAMILY NAME | Maravall |
| SIGNATURE | MARAVALL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fundación Juan March |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation
This book examines whether the mechanisms of accountability characteristic of democratic systems are sufficient to induce the representatives to act in the best interest of the represented. The first part of the volume focuses on the role of elections, distinguishing different ways in which they may cause representation. The second part is devoted to the role of checks and balances, between the government and the parliament as well as between the…
Accountability in Coalition Governments
Most theoretical studies of coalition politics have focused on selection, rather than accountability: Coalition partners are selected according to the proximity of their positions in a Euclidean policy space. This proximity, together with institutional attributes of the party systems or the coalitions, serves also to explain the duration of the coalition. Empirical studies of retrospective voting, often with little connection to accountability th…
Democracy and the Rule of Law
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from th…
The Politics of Unemployment
This paper will defend two related theses. The first is that, if certain institutional \nconditions are absent, economic policies will have unanticipated consequences that will \ncontradict the interests of the government and its support coalition. To quote Scharpf (1991: \n161), “to be successful, an economic strategy must satisfy two requirements. It must be \nappropriate to the (constantly changing) economic conditions that actually obtain, an…
Political Reactions to the Economy
Common sense and abundant empirical evidence appear to indicate that voters respond to economic conditions. Ceteris paribus, when such conditions are good, people support governments; when the economy deteriorates, this support suffers. It has thus been claimed that "the proposition that voters will punish incumbents for poor performance should not be controversial" (Kiewiet and Rivers, 1985:225). If true, such a conclusion would provide empirica…
De la transitología a la democracia sustentable
Reacciones políticas a la economía
Influyen las condiciones de la economía en las decisiones de voto de los individuos? El presente estudio se basa en datos individuales procedentes de 63 encuestas a lo largo de dieciséis años, abarcando 158.412 entrevistados. Analizando series temporales de la relación entre las valoraciones agregadas de la economía y las condiciones objetivas de ésta, el trabajo muestra que las valoraciones se ajustaron con precisión a tales condiciones. Pero si…
Regimes, Politics, and Markets
This ambitious study, by a leading Spanish social scientist, analyses the mutual relationships between politics and the economy. Focusing on the experiences of Southern and Eastern Europe, it examines the complex interdependence between democracies, economic growth, social redistribution, and political culture. Are democratization processes the product of previous experiences of development, or of economic crisis? Can political regimes influence …
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
Economic Reforms in New Democracies
The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage
The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage José Maria Maravall (bio) Economic markets are a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for democracy, but is democracy a requirement for efficient economic markets? The first relationship is widely assumed to apply; the second is much more controversial. Skepticism about the economic efficiency of democracy leads to three related theses: that market reforms can be successfully introduced only under an…
L'IdentitÀ Della Sinistra
IntroduzioneQuesto articolo intende discutere i programmi e le politiche realizzate dai partiti socialisti dell'Europa del Sud giunti al potere negli anni ottanta. Vi sono considerati i partiti socialisti spagnolo (PSOE), greco (PASOK), portoghese (PSP), italiano (PSI) e francese (PS). Per i primi tre, la democrazia costituiva un'esperienza recente, esito delle transizioni dall'autoritarismo della metà degli anni settanta; negli altri due casi, e…
Spain
This article analyses the bases of the political competition between the Communist Party (PCE) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Spain. The historical backgrounds of this competition in the period of Popular Front strategies and civil war and under Francoism are discussed. The main decisions taken by the PCE seem to have traditionally followed a pattern of politics of broad alliances, generally moderate strategies and attempts to minimize the soc…
Political Cleavages in Spain and the 1979 General Election
THE TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY IN Spain has been a fascinating experience ever since the Autumn of 1976, when the Ley de Reforma Politica (Law on Political Reform) was passed through the Francoist Cortes and later through a national Referendum. Setting aside the political virtuosity of the different players involved in this dramatic experiment, three aspects of the transition have been particularly important from the point of view …
The Limits of Reformism
Dictadura y disentimiento político
Students and Politics in Contemporary Spain
THE ORGANIZATION OF SPANISH UNIVERSITIES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR put them under the control of Falange and the Catholic Church. The Ley de Ordenaciόn Universitaria (Law of University Organization) of 1943 established this Falangist/Catholic control over the recruitment of academic staff, the content of teaching and the appointment of Rectors. In 1940, a pre-war Falangist student union, the SEU (Sindicato Español Universitario) was converted into a st…
Subjective Conditions and Revolutionary Conflict
The sociology of revolutionary conflict has been overwhelmingly concerned with the analysis of 'system contradictions' as 'objective conditions' of conflict and has shown remarkably little interest in what may be called loosely the analysis of 'subjective conditions'. This neglect has led to inadequacies in the interpretation of particular types of conflict, especially in the case of middle-class and student radicalism. These inadequacies are the…
Political Socialization and Political Dissent
The article studies the emergence of political dissent under non-democratic regimes and Spanish student radicalism from 1955 to 1970 is considered as a case study. The article uses a theoretical approach whose main elements are, on the one hand, the political restrictions set up against dissent and, on the other hand, the possibilities of over-coming these restrictions through particular conditions of availability of dissenting ideas, allowing fo…
Modernization, Authoritarianism, and the Growth of Working‐Class Dissent
THIS ARTICLE ATTEMPTS TO DISCUSS A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS RELATED to the development of a working-class movement of dissent under non-democratic conditions. In this discussion particular attention will be given to the consequences of economic development. It is not that economic development will be considered as a cross-culturally invariant factor in the explanation of social and political conflict and dissent, but that given i) a non-democratic pol…
Estratificación social y operacionalismo
Emigración y sociedad en la Tierra de Campos
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage
The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage José Maria Maravall (bio) Economic markets are a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for democracy, but is democracy a requirement for efficient economic markets? The first relationship is widely assumed to apply; the second is much more controversial. Skepticism about the economic efficiency of democracy leads to three related theses: that market reforms can be successfully introduced only under an…
Accountability in Coalition Governments
Most theoretical studies of coalition politics have focused on selection, rather than accountability: Coalition partners are selected according to the proximity of their positions in a Euclidean policy space. This proximity, together with institutional attributes of the party systems or the coalitions, serves also to explain the duration of the coalition. Empirical studies of retrospective voting, often with little connection to accountability th…
Dictadura y disentimiento político
Political Cleavages in Spain and the 1979 General Election
THE TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY IN Spain has been a fascinating experience ever since the Autumn of 1976, when the Ley de Reforma Politica (Law on Political Reform) was passed through the Francoist Cortes and later through a national Referendum. Setting aside the political virtuosity of the different players involved in this dramatic experiment, three aspects of the transition have been particularly important from the point of view …
The Limits of Reformism
Reacciones políticas a la economía
Influyen las condiciones de la economía en las decisiones de voto de los individuos? El presente estudio se basa en datos individuales procedentes de 63 encuestas a lo largo de dieciséis años, abarcando 158.412 entrevistados. Analizando series temporales de la relación entre las valoraciones agregadas de la economía y las condiciones objetivas de ésta, el trabajo muestra que las valoraciones se ajustaron con precisión a tales condiciones. Pero si…
Spain
This article analyses the bases of the political competition between the Communist Party (PCE) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Spain. The historical backgrounds of this competition in the period of Popular Front strategies and civil war and under Francoism are discussed. The main decisions taken by the PCE seem to have traditionally followed a pattern of politics of broad alliances, generally moderate strategies and attempts to minimize the soc…
Subjective Conditions and Revolutionary Conflict
The sociology of revolutionary conflict has been overwhelmingly concerned with the analysis of 'system contradictions' as 'objective conditions' of conflict and has shown remarkably little interest in what may be called loosely the analysis of 'subjective conditions'. This neglect has led to inadequacies in the interpretation of particular types of conflict, especially in the case of middle-class and student radicalism. These inadequacies are the…
Modernization, Authoritarianism, and the Growth of Working‐Class Dissent
THIS ARTICLE ATTEMPTS TO DISCUSS A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS RELATED to the development of a working-class movement of dissent under non-democratic conditions. In this discussion particular attention will be given to the consequences of economic development. It is not that economic development will be considered as a cross-culturally invariant factor in the explanation of social and political conflict and dissent, but that given i) a non-democratic pol…
Emigración y sociedad en la Tierra de Campos
Estratificación social y operacionalismo
Modernization, Authoritarianism, and the Growth of Working‐Class Dissent
THIS ARTICLE ATTEMPTS TO DISCUSS A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS RELATED to the development of a working-class movement of dissent under non-democratic conditions. In this discussion particular attention will be given to the consequences of economic development. It is not that economic development will be considered as a cross-culturally invariant factor in the explanation of social and political conflict and dissent, but that given i) a non-democratic pol…
Students and Politics in Contemporary Spain
THE ORGANIZATION OF SPANISH UNIVERSITIES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR put them under the control of Falange and the Catholic Church. The Ley de Ordenaciόn Universitaria (Law of University Organization) of 1943 established this Falangist/Catholic control over the recruitment of academic staff, the content of teaching and the appointment of Rectors. In 1940, a pre-war Falangist student union, the SEU (Sindicato Español Universitario) was converted into a st…
Subjective Conditions and Revolutionary Conflict
The sociology of revolutionary conflict has been overwhelmingly concerned with the analysis of 'system contradictions' as 'objective conditions' of conflict and has shown remarkably little interest in what may be called loosely the analysis of 'subjective conditions'. This neglect has led to inadequacies in the interpretation of particular types of conflict, especially in the case of middle-class and student radicalism. These inadequacies are the…
Political Socialization and Political Dissent
The article studies the emergence of political dissent under non-democratic regimes and Spanish student radicalism from 1955 to 1970 is considered as a case study. The article uses a theoretical approach whose main elements are, on the one hand, the political restrictions set up against dissent and, on the other hand, the possibilities of over-coming these restrictions through particular conditions of availability of dissenting ideas, allowing fo…
Spain
This article analyses the bases of the political competition between the Communist Party (PCE) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) in Spain. The historical backgrounds of this competition in the period of Popular Front strategies and civil war and under Francoism are discussed. The main decisions taken by the PCE seem to have traditionally followed a pattern of politics of broad alliances, generally moderate strategies and attempts to minimize the soc…
Political Cleavages in Spain and the 1979 General Election
THE TRANSITION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY IN Spain has been a fascinating experience ever since the Autumn of 1976, when the Ley de Reforma Politica (Law on Political Reform) was passed through the Francoist Cortes and later through a national Referendum. Setting aside the political virtuosity of the different players involved in this dramatic experiment, three aspects of the transition have been particularly important from the point of view …
The Limits of Reformism
Dictadura y disentimiento político
L'IdentitÀ Della Sinistra
IntroduzioneQuesto articolo intende discutere i programmi e le politiche realizzate dai partiti socialisti dell'Europa del Sud giunti al potere negli anni ottanta. Vi sono considerati i partiti socialisti spagnolo (PSOE), greco (PASOK), portoghese (PSP), italiano (PSI) e francese (PS). Per i primi tre, la democrazia costituiva un'esperienza recente, esito delle transizioni dall'autoritarismo della metà degli anni settanta; negli altri due casi, e…
Economic Reforms in New Democracies
The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage
The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage José Maria Maravall (bio) Economic markets are a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for democracy, but is democracy a requirement for efficient economic markets? The first relationship is widely assumed to apply; the second is much more controversial. Skepticism about the economic efficiency of democracy leads to three related theses: that market reforms can be successfully introduced only under an…
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
Regimes, Politics, and Markets
This ambitious study, by a leading Spanish social scientist, analyses the mutual relationships between politics and the economy. Focusing on the experiences of Southern and Eastern Europe, it examines the complex interdependence between democracies, economic growth, social redistribution, and political culture. Are democratization processes the product of previous experiences of development, or of economic crisis? Can political regimes influence …
Reacciones políticas a la economía
Influyen las condiciones de la economía en las decisiones de voto de los individuos? El presente estudio se basa en datos individuales procedentes de 63 encuestas a lo largo de dieciséis años, abarcando 158.412 entrevistados. Analizando series temporales de la relación entre las valoraciones agregadas de la economía y las condiciones objetivas de ésta, el trabajo muestra que las valoraciones se ajustaron con precisión a tales condiciones. Pero si…
The Politics of Unemployment
This paper will defend two related theses. The first is that, if certain institutional \nconditions are absent, economic policies will have unanticipated consequences that will \ncontradict the interests of the government and its support coalition. To quote Scharpf (1991: \n161), “to be successful, an economic strategy must satisfy two requirements. It must be \nappropriate to the (constantly changing) economic conditions that actually obtain, an…
Political Reactions to the Economy
Common sense and abundant empirical evidence appear to indicate that voters respond to economic conditions. Ceteris paribus, when such conditions are good, people support governments; when the economy deteriorates, this support suffers. It has thus been claimed that "the proposition that voters will punish incumbents for poor performance should not be controversial" (Kiewiet and Rivers, 1985:225). If true, such a conclusion would provide empirica…
De la transitología a la democracia sustentable
Democracy and the Rule of Law
This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from th…
Accountability in Coalition Governments
Most theoretical studies of coalition politics have focused on selection, rather than accountability: Coalition partners are selected according to the proximity of their positions in a Euclidean policy space. This proximity, together with institutional attributes of the party systems or the coalitions, serves also to explain the duration of the coalition. Empirical studies of retrospective voting, often with little connection to accountability th…
Democracy, Accountability, and Representation
This book examines whether the mechanisms of accountability characteristic of democratic systems are sufficient to induce the representatives to act in the best interest of the represented. The first part of the volume focuses on the role of elections, distinguishing different ways in which they may cause representation. The second part is devoted to the role of checks and balances, between the government and the parliament as well as between the…
Political science (20 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Democracy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Economic system (5 works)