Delincuencia común y contienda política durante la Restauración, 1884-1930: Democratización sin democracia

Antonio Herrera González de Molina

doi:10.70794/hs.115988

Authors

Antonio Herrera González de Molina Universidad de Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5243-7146

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.115988

Keywords:

Contentious politics, democratization, criminality, political reforms, rural society

Abstract

This article studies the impact of the numerous criminal actions of the common people in the political contention of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before strikes and collective protest actions became an inseparable part of the contentious politics and democratization, common and apparently individual crimes by the popular classes were not only evidence of the imbalances generated by the implementation of the new liberal model but also acts of pressure that helped to set in motion democratizing social and political reforms. The judicial sentences of several Andalusian localities during four decades are analyzed and contextualized in order to support the hypothesis that proposes to link criminality with democratization.

Author Biography

Antonio Herrera González de Molina, Universidad de Granada

Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada. His research falls within the framework of contemporary agrarian history and studies on democratization in the rural world. Publications include the books Rethinking the history of democracy in Spain (Routledge, 2024), Movilización social y democracia (Comares, 2024), Social Movements and The Spanish Transition (Palgrave, 2017) and the monograph on the construction of democracy in the countryside published in 2007 by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA). He has directed, together with John Markoff, Salvador Cruz and Francisco Acosta, several research projects resulting in several articles in journals such as Mobilization, An International Quarterly, Research in Political Sociology (2014 Emerald Group Publishing award), Historia Social, Ayer or Historia Agraria.