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SUMMARY:Was Spain under Franco Fascist? Juan Linz and his Critics on the N
 ature of the Franco Regime - Jeff Miley
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CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
DESCRIPTION:One of the hallmarks of the tradition of Western political tho
 ught has been the classification of types of polities or regimes.  Nearly 
 all of the most revered minds in the so-called Western Canon\, from Plato 
 and Aristotle up through Machiavelli\, Hobbes\, Locke\, and Rousseau\, spe
 nt enormous intellectual energy in attempting to distinguish and analyze t
 he nature of different kinds of polities or regimes.  More often than not\
 , such efforts at classification were accompanied by arguments about the d
 ynamics of transition among or cycling between different types of polities
  or regimes.  Among twentieth-century political thinkers\, Juan Linz is on
 e of the few with the rare combination of sufficient historical knowledge 
 and broad theoretical ambition to attempt to undertake such a systematic s
 urvey of the modern political landscape. \n\nIn international circles\, Li
 nz’s contribution to the understanding of the varieties of democratic as
  well as non-democratic political regimes has been widely recognized.  In 
 his native Spain\, however\, Linz’s use of the Franco regime as “an ex
 ample and point of departure” for conceptualizing authoritarianism as a 
 distinct type of nondemocratic political regime has been\, and continues t
 o be\, the subject of considerable controversy.  This essay will provide a
 n overview and an assessment of the main arguments that have been advanced
  in the course of this valuable if sometimes overheated debate.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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