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Bargaining for Democracy: Labor Unions and Democratic Consolidation in Spain
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Bargaining for Democracy: Labor Unions and Democratic Consolidation in Spain
Sebastián Royo, Ph.D.
Institutional Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Government at Suffolk University, Boston, MA, and Affiliate and co-chair of the
Iberian Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA. USA.
Contact Information:
Suffolk University
Government Department
Beacon Hill
41 Temple St. 5
th
Floor
Boston, MA 02114
USA
## email not listed ##
www.cas.suffolk.edu/royo
617-573-8343
Fax: 617-367-4623
Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to examine how the links between trade unions and affiliated political parties of the left influenced the strategies of labor during the transition and the first years of democracy. I argue that political partisanship is a key factor to understand unions' strategies in Spain following the establishment of democracy. After a period of intense labor conflict during the transition to democracy, labor mobilization decreased and Spanish unions and social actors initiated distinctive processes of social bargaining, which started in 1979. The key argument is that the relationship of unions and political parties in the authoritarian and transition periods was a major factor in conditioning strategies in the post-authoritarian period. In the end, the consolidation of Spanish democracy has led to the strengthening of the main trade unions, who have used this power (as opposed to what had happened in other historical periods) to contribute to governability and the consolidation of the new democratic regime.
-----------------------------Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28 – August 31
st
, 2003. Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Draft. Comments are welcome. Please do not quote without permission from the author.
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Bargaining for Democracy: Labor Unions and Democratic Consolidation in Spain
Sebastián Royo, Ph.D.
Institutional Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Government at Suffolk University, Boston, MA, and Affiliate and co-chair of the
Iberian Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA. USA.
Contact Information:
Suffolk University
Government Department
Beacon Hill
41 Temple St. 5
th
Floor
Boston, MA 02114
USA
## email not listed ##
www.cas.suffolk.edu/royo
617-573-8343
Fax: 617-367-4623
Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to examine how the links between trade unions and affiliated political
parties of the left influenced the strategies of labor during the transition and the first years of democracy. I
argue that political partisanship is a key factor to understand unions' strategies in Spain following the
establishment of democracy. After a period of intense labor conflict during the transition to democracy,
labor mobilization decreased and Spanish unions and social actors initiated distinctive processes of social
bargaining, which started in 1979. The key argument is that the relationship of unions and political parties
in the authoritarian and transition periods was a major factor in conditioning strategies in the post-
authoritarian period. In the end, the consolidation of Spanish democracy has led to the strengthening of the
main trade unions, who have used this power (as opposed to what had happened in other historical periods)
to contribute to governability and the consolidation of the new democratic regime.
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Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, August 28 – August 31
st
, 2003. Copyright by the American Political Science Association.
Draft. Comments are welcome. Please do not quote without permission from the author.
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