The Constitution of 1978 as a Site of Memory in Spain
Abstract
During the transition, the success of installing a consensual democratic regime was converted into the historical master narrative of the new Spain and the anniversary of the constitutional referendum of the 6th of Decem-ber 1978 carne to be considered the most important lieu de mémoire of the new democracy. Towards the end of 1980 the socialists proposed to make it the National Holiday. But between the 23-F and the electoral triumph of October 1982, the élites of the PSOE changed their attitude and gave up on their original proposal. Between 1985 and 1987 they thus passed the law that confirmed the 12th of October as the National Holiday of Spain and a decree that converted the 6th of December into a second rate official holiday, even if surveys were showing a clear majority of Spaniards in favour of the 6th of December as National Holiday. The development of the new historical master narrative of the successful transition has thus been com-bined with a politics of commemoration that has deprived the Spaniards of a possibility to celébrate it adequately.Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors whose contributions are accepted for publication in this journal, accept the following terms:
a. The authors retain their copyright and guarantee to the magazine the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works 4.0 Spain, which allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and its first publication is indicated.
b. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements to distribute the version of the published work (e.g. deposit in an institutional repository or archive, or published in a monographic volume) provided the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
PLAGIARISM AND SCIENTIFIC FRAUD
The publication of work that infringes on intellectual property rights is the sole responsibility of the authors, including any conflicts that may occur regarding infringement of copyright. This includes, most importantly, conflicts related to the commission of plagiarism and/or scientific fraud.
Plagiarism is understood to include:
1. Presenting the work of others as your own.
2. Adopting words or ideas from other authors without due recognition.
3. Not using quotation marks or another distinctive format to distinguish literal quotations.
4. Giving incorrect information about the true source of a citation.
5. The paraphrasing of a source without mentioning the source.
6. Excessive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned.
Practices constituting scientific fraud are as follows:
1. Fabrication, falsification or omission of data and plagiarism.
2. Duplicate publication.
3. Conflicts of authorship.
