Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting

by Omar Guillermo Encarnación

Spain is a notable exception to the implicit rules of late twentieth-century democratization: after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, the recovering nation began to consolidate democracy without enacting any of the mechanisms promoted by the international transitional justice movement. There were no political trials, no truth and reconciliation commissions, no formal attributions of blame, and no apologies. Instead, Spain's national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245687
• ISBN13: 9780812245684
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"