spain and the media

FRANQUISMO: CONTROL OF THE MEDIA UNDER AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME The political system established in 1939 by Francisco Franco was, along with the Salazar regime in neighboring Portugal, one of the longest-lasting dictatorships in Western Europe. It was the quintessential "authoritarian" regime (Linz 1975), characterized by limited and non-responsible political pluralism, political demobilization, a leader who exercised power within formally undefined but clearly recognizable limits, and the absence of an elaborated ideology. While these regime characteristics remained more …showed first 75 words of 5120 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5120 total…principal channel for the resocialization of "the attentive public". A "reemergence" of civil society, featuring much greater ideological pluralism, also resulted (López Pintor 1982, 90). To some extent, this "reemergence" was facilitated by the preservation and intergenerational transmission of democratic attitudes which predated the Franco regime (Maravall 1978), but the public articulation of these values in the press during the late 1960s and early 1970s appears to have significantly reinforced this attitudinal contagion and crystallization ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**