Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on March 8, 2006
Parliamentary Affairs 2006 59(2):331-349; doi:10.1093/pa/gsl001
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‘It’s Politics, Stupid!’ The Spanish General Election of 20041
G. Blakeley
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THE Spanish general election of 14 March 2004, which took place only three days after the Madrid bombings on the 11 March, produced a change of government that opinion surveys had not predicted. It is easy to assume, therefore, that the change of government from the right-wing Popular Party (PP), which had governed Spain for the previous eight years, to the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) was a direct result of the terrorist bombings which left 192 dead and over 1,500 injured. While the terrorist bombings undoubtedly influenced the general election, this article argues that a more detailed reading of the last four years of the Spanish political context shows that the change of government was not simply a result of the ‘four days that changed Spain’.2 The Madrid bombings acted as a catalyst for change, but the desire for change had built up gradually, following the PP’s second electoral . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Background
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Disdain for public opinion
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Manipulation of information
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The campaign
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The government’s handling of the bombings
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Interpreting the results
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Absolute majority governments in Spain
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Conclusion
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