Spain and Portugal in the European Union: The First Fifteen YearsPaul Christopher Manuel, Sebastian Royo This publication provides an up-to-date assessment of the political and economic issues and is valuable reading for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Spain and Portugal. Following decades of relative isolation under authoritarian regimes, the success of the processes of democratic transition in both countries paved the way for full membership in the European Community in 1986. Drawing on research by established scholars, Spain and Portugal in the European Union offers an original series of analyses of the development of Iberian politics, sociology and economics since the accession to the European Union. |
Contents
Some Lessons from the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Accession of Portugal and Spain to the European Union | 1 |
The European Union and the PostAuthoritarian Political Transformations of Spain and Portugal | 25 |
European Integration and Civil Society in Spain | 38 |
After the Revolution Democratic Europe | 55 |
Social and Political Perspectives | 81 |
Spaniards Long March Towards Europe | 99 |
Spanish Membership of the European Union Revisited | 123 |
The Good Student with a Bad Fiscal Constitution | 140 |
Fifteen Years May Not Be Enough | 162 |
The Impact of Accession into the European Union | 194 |
Its Impact on Employment and Wages in Portugal as Compared with Spain | 225 |
A FifteenYear QuasiExperiment with European Integration in a Pair of Most Similar Systems | 262 |
Absracts | 269 |
Notes on contributors | 274 |
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