Although born during the inter-war period of Facism, the Franco regime managed to survive into the predominantly liberal-democratic era of Western Europe after 1945. The book takes as its major theme the complex and changing relationship between the internal structures of dictatorship and civil society. Often characterized simply as personal dictatorship founded upon force, in reality the key to its longevity was a remarkable capacity to integrate different interest groups, to generate substantial legitimacy, and to marginalize dissent until its final years.
- ISBN10 0340663235
- ISBN13 9780340663233
- Publish Date 26 September 1997
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 7 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder Arnold
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English