Freedom, Power and Democracy: a significant debate in the Spanish Second Republic
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the Spanish process of democratization during the interwar period. This requires a specific study of the usual categories of Republican politics. Therefore, this article explores the meanings of certain political concepts used by main protagonists: democracy, liberalism or state, among others. The debate on Freedom, Power and Democracy that emerged in Spanish political life once produced the fall of the monarchy (April 1931) has been thoroughly analyzed. That decisive debate took place at the time to define the characteristics of the new republican institutions, that is, in the context in which the rules of the game and the definition of the model of democracy were discussed.
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Spain, democracy, Second Republic, political culture, liberalism, state
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