Iberian Military Politics: Controlling the Armed Forces During Dictatorship and Democratisation

By applying the nodality, authority, treasure and organisation public policy framework and neo-institutional theory to the dictatorship of Salazar and Franco respectively, this study explores the instruments that governments used to control the military and explains the divergent paths of civil-military relations in 20th Century Portugal and Spain.

Author: José Javier Olivas Osuna
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2014
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781349459353

About the Author
José Javier Olivas is a Fellow and Associate to LSE IDEAS and the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also Co-founder and Editor of Euro Crisis in the Press, as well as Director of the online voting and debate platform Netivist.