A Quasi-Presidential Premiership: Administering the Executive Summit in Spain
A Quasi-Presidential Premiership: Administering the Executive Summit in Spain
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准总统任期:主持西班牙行政峰会
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-62797-4_7
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发表时间:
2000
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通讯作者:
I. Molina
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作者:
P. Heywood;I. Molina
Spain, which has limited experience of stable parliamentary government and has been marked by a weakly developed civil society, has traditionally been ruled by strong-often authoritarian-governments, supported by a long-established but uneven administrative apparatus. The position of head of government, with a formal support structure, was established early in European terms, though, in practice, before the 1930s a heavily interventionist monarchy left the prime minister (Presidente del Gobierno) 2 with little real autonomy or leadership capacity. Moreover, throughout most of the Franco dictatorship (1939-75), the positions of head of state and head of government were institutionally embodied in the person of the dictator himself. Only with the post-Franco transition to democracy was it possible to establish a parliamentary democracy with a strong government over which the prime minister exercises significant authority.Spain's 1978 Constitution adopted the (West) German model with respect to the formation, functioning and powers of the government and its prime minister. In contrast to the Italian example, concern for democracy did not lead to a strong parliament which could act as a counterweight to the concentration of power within the government; on the contrary, the institutional design of the new democracy was driven by the pragmatic desire to avoid repeating the constitutional shortcomings of the Second Republic (1931-6), which had given rise to political instability and ultimately civil war. Thus, the government in contemporary Spain enjoys extensive room for manoeuvre over legislation (priority of its own bills over those