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The Impact of Regime Change on Public Policy: The Case of Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Richard Gunther
Richard Gunther
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Political Science, Ohio State University
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Abstract

Does political regime matter? Parallel analyses of Spanish public expenditure and taxation policies under the authoritarian Franco regime and in the current democracy, as well as of decision-making processes under both regimes, based upon extensive in-depth interviews with relevant government officials from 1974 to 1996, indicate that political regime characteristics can have a profound impact on both policy processes and outputs. Ruling out a ‘socioeconomic’ explanation, the author concludes that striking aberrations in state spending and taxation policies in the early 1970s were systematic products of unusual features of Franquist policy-making processes, which were directly linked to the authoritarian nature of the regime itself. Subsequently, democratization has been accompanied by dramatic changes in both policy processes and outputs.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 1996 , pp. 157 - 201
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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