Integrating Southern Europe: EC Expansion and the Transnationalisation of Spain

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Part I Theoretical perspective......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
INTERSTATE DEPENDENCY AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE CRISIS OF FORDISM1......Page 15
Poulantzas and the crisis of the dictatorships......Page 17
The French Regulation school: Alain Lipietz......Page 20
INTERNATIONAL OR ATLANTIC FORDISM......Page 23
The first dimension: the adoption of Fordist production methods......Page 24
The second dimension: macro-economic regulation and the welfare state......Page 26
Comprehensive concepts of control......Page 29
Integrating Southern Europe......Page 33
Part II Historical perspective......Page 38
INTRODUCTION......Page 39
THE PECULIARITIES OF THE SPANISH CASE......Page 41
Weak and strong states: the case of Spain......Page 42
Socio-political and economic modernization in Spain......Page 45
PRELUDE: LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE AUTHORITARIAN SOLUTION......Page 47
Spanish regenerationism and the social problem......Page 52
SIGNS OF LEVIATHAN: FRANQUISM AND THE REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE......Page 58
The concept of corporatism......Page 59
From state corporatism to societal corporatism......Page 60
IN SEARCH OF HEGEMONY: STATE-CIVIL SOCIETY CONFIGURATIONS IN POST-FRANQUIST SPAIN......Page 66
CONCLUSIONS......Page 70
Part III The Socialist decade (1982–1992)......Page 75
INTRODUCTION......Page 76
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE RISE OF THE SPANISH SOCIALIST PARTY......Page 78
THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF THE SOCIALIST PROJECT......Page 80
The party’s ‘dual strategy’......Page 82
The hypothetical policy options of the PSOE......Page 83
The final outcome: the hegemonic synthesis......Page 84
FACTIONAL STRIFE AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF A PROJECT......Page 86
The party versus the government: Guerristas against ‘social liberals’......Page 89
OPERATION EUROPE: STILL THE ‘CARDINAL AND TRANSCENDENT THOUGHT’?......Page 93
APPENDIX: RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS TO THE CONGRESS, 1977–1989......Page 96
INTRODUCTION......Page 98
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE UNDER SOCIALIST RULE......Page 99
THE NATO REFERENDUM OF 1986......Page 102
‘¡OTAN, de entrada, no!’......Page 103
The ‘decalogue’ and the conditionally clauses of the NATO referendum......Page 106
Explaining the volte-face of the PSOE......Page 108
THE SECOND PHASE OF THE EUROPEANIZATION OF SPANISH FOREIGN POLICY......Page 115
EPILOGUE: PROGRAMME 2000 AND THE RHETORIC OF EURO-SOCIALISM......Page 122
INTRODUCTION......Page 126
STRUCTURAL IMBALANCES AND SOCIALIST MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY......Page 129
EXTERNAL RESTRAINTS AND SOCIALIST ECONOMIC POLICY......Page 137
THE IMPACT OF FULL EC MEMBERSHIP ON MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICY-MAKING AND INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING......Page 147
The impact of EC membership on the Spanish economy......Page 148
The impact of the internal market on the Spanish economy......Page 149
Monetary unification and economic convergence......Page 152
Industrial policy and the Institute Nacional de Industria......Page 156
INTERNATIONAL PRIORITIES AND DOMESTIC PROTEST......Page 162
INTRODUCTION......Page 166
PRIVATE BANK CAPITAL AND THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL BOURGEOISIE......Page 167
From agrarian to industrial society: the role of private banking (1885–1975)......Page 169
The ‘Club de los Siete’ and the transition to democracy......Page 173
LOS SIETE GRANDES......Page 175
THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE BANK CAPITAL: CO-OPERATION AND CONFRONTATION......Page 178
Centres of social and political power during the Socialist decade......Page 180
The ‘beautiful people’......Page 182
Banco Hispano Americano, Banco de Bilbao and Banco de Vizcaya......Page 183
Public companies and the ‘Club de Empresarios’......Page 185
Foreign capital......Page 186
The opposition: Partido Popular, CEOE, and Banesto......Page 187
Operation Europe: the government-led concentration of Spanish banking......Page 191
APPENDIX: SPANISH BANKING IN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON......Page 197
7 Conclusions and epilogue......Page 199
SPAIN’S ROAD TO MODERNITY......Page 202
THE FAILURE OF THE PROJECT......Page 205
THE EUROPEANIZATION OF SPAIN’S FOREIGN AND ECONOMIC POLICY......Page 208
CENTRES OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL POWER IN SPAIN......Page 211
EUROPEAN UNION: DEEPENING OR WIDENING?......Page 214
APPENDIX......Page 216
1 INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE TRANSITION TO MODERNITY......Page 217
2 THE MAKING OF CONTEMPORARY SPAIN: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL MODERNIZATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 221
3 OPERATION EUROPE: THE HEGEMONIC PROJECT OF THE PSOE......Page 225
4 THE NATO REFERENDUM AND BEYOND: FROM GREAT POWER AMBITION TO SMALL POWER REALITY......Page 226
5 SOCIALIST ECONOMIC POLICY AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF DOMESTIC POLITICS......Page 229
6 MERGING INTO EUROPE: PRIVATE BANK CAPITAL AND THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT......Page 233
Bibliography......Page 238
Index......Page 254