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Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? Leading theories argue that international networks of technocratic elites develop orthodox solutions that they singlehandedly transplant across countries. But, in modern democracies, elites alone cannot press for legislative reforms without winning the support of politicians, voters, and interest groups. As Katerina Linos shows in The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion, international models can help politicians generate domestic enthusiasm for far-reaching proposals. By pointing to models from abroad, policitians can persuade voters that their ideas are not radical, ill-thought out experiments, but mainstream, tried-and-true soluti...
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Desde la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, cuando la sociedad española comenzó a consolidar su proceso de modernización, ha existido en España una larga tradición de estudios generales sobre la estructura social española. Este libro, realizado por el Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), como institución fundamental en la sociología de nuestro país, es heredero de esta tradición. Editada y coordinada por Cristóbal Torres Albero, Catedrático de Sociología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, la presente obra lleva a cabo un análisis longitudinal exhaustivo de la estructura y situación social española, muy especialmente a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, un perio...