This book is the first systematic study of policy analysis activities in Spain.
It provides a comprehensive overview of how policy actors, including politicians, think tanks, researchers, interest groups and experts, generate information for the policy-making process. The book explores how executive and legislative actors participate in the production of policy analysis and how all actors elaborate and disseminate information on policy analysis.
Contributors consider the ways different policy actors are involved in the production of data and information about policy problems, the resources used to produce policy analysis and the type of analysis produced over time in different policy areas.
This book is a study of nostalgia, belonging and community which provides a new theoretical framework for understanding retirement migration. It is the first account of retirement migration that focuses on the voices of retired working-class British women, who are considering either return migration to the UK or permanent/temporary settlement in Spain. Through a narrative approach, we follow their journeys as they seek, recreate and construct community in a new context and their experiences of belonging and non-belonging are unravelled. The book offers a critical perspective, challenging positivistic, essentialist definitions of community.
423 Policy & Politics vol 37 no 3 • 423-38 (2009) • 10.1332/030557309X435853 © The Policy Press, 2009 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: policy transfer • globalisation • immigration • Spain • Catalonia Final submission October 2008 • Acceptance December 2008 False and frustrated policy transfer: Spanish immigration policy and Catalonia Andrew Davis This article questions the claim that policy transfer is ‘on the rise’, preferring instead to treat the assertion as a hypothesis to be investigated. Using the literature’s own predictive categories, it investigates
Columbus, which has a circular base surrounded by eight statues of lions. There are also coats of arms and statues referring to territories and personalities related to Columbus. The inauguration of the monument was on 1 June 1888, and in 1892, the Columbus Monument became the centre of the celebrations of the Fourth Centenary of the Discovery (4CD), an aspect that is recorded on a plaque on the monument. It should be noted that the celebration of the 4CD is the first time that the centenary was celebrated. During the 19th century, wars of independence from Spain took
-income countries (Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA), have come to light, from which a high proportion are qualitative studies, largely using interviews and focus groups techniques to uncover lived experiences, perceptions, views and attitudes towards menstrual poverty ( Vora, 2017 ; Hall, 2018 ; Plan International UK, 2018 ; Kuhlmann et al, 2019 ; Barrington et al, 2021 ; Briggs, 2021 ). Indeed, despite having witnessed a number of relevant policy decisions in Canada, US and UK (England and Scotland) in this area such as public coverage of menstrual products
371 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 2 • no 3 • 371–93 • © Policy Press 2013 • #FRS ISSN 2046 7435 • ISSN 2046 7466 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674313X671169 The decline of the male breadwinner family model versus the persistence of gendered unpaid work in Spain Almudena Moreno Mínguez (almudena@soc.uva.es) University of Valladolid, Spain Based on a careful review of the theoretical and empirical literature on comparative gender studies, this article aims to contribute to the ongoing debate about the relationship between women’s labour
573 Policy & Politics vol 36 no 4 • 573-86 (2008) • 10.1332/147084408X349792 © The Policy Press, 2008 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: Spain • regional governance • devolution • state • federalism Final submission July 2008 • Acceptance July 2008 The Spanish model of devolution and regional governance: evolution, motivations and effects on policy making César Colino The Spanish model of decentralisation was originally devised to achieve cultural-political recognition for some regions and democracy and economic development for all. This article examines how this
Key messages This article explores coalition-building in feminist movements in times of neoliberal crisis in Spain and Italy. The ability to bridge socio-economic grievances and feminist demands is key for successful feminist mobilisation. Grievances shape coalition-building both within feminist milieus and between feminist and other struggles. Feminist coalitions in (anti-)austerity times The outbreak of the economic crisis in 2008 was met with the mass mobilisation of citizens, especially in the European periphery. Anti-austerity protests
Key messages Sexual harassment prevalence rates are low and with a high variability. University staff members experience more sexual harassment than students. It would be advisable to supplement these quantitative studies with new qualitative studies to better understand the results obtained. Introduction The current study analyses the prevalence of sexual harassment among staff and undergraduate students at a Spanish public university. It is important to understand the magnitude of this problem among all members of university communities
121 SEVEN Social workers affecting social policy in Spain María-Asunción Martínez-Román Social work in the welfare system in Spain Ever since the current Constitution was passed by parliament in 1978, Spain has been organised territorially in municipalities, provinces and autonomous communities (regional level). All these bodies enjoy self-government in the management of their respective interests (Constitution, section 137). Within this decentralised structure, each level of the administration has its own responsibilities, but the central administration
