Relations between the electoral system, the political parties and the shape of governance in the Spanish parliamentary experience.

Authors

  • SILVIO GAMBINO

Keywords:

parties, elections, parliamentarianism, government, Spain.

Abstract

This article analyses how the Spanish parliamentary regime works, comparing it with others and examining the historical evolution of parliamentarism in Europe and its treatment by Italian and Spanish scientific doctrine. After some initial methodological considerations regarding the relationships that the author discerns between parties and electoral systems in today’s democracies and how these influence different manifestations of parliamentary government, it analyses the Spanish parliamentary experience in greater detail, focussing on said relationships since Constitution was adopted in 1978, and studying the formula through which progressive rationalization took place.

Published

2009-11-18