The Strategy of Confrontation
1 REPORT ON DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN/ 2007 The Strategy of Confrontation SUMMARY The development of a strategy of confrontation as a method for The Different politically debilitating the governing Levels of Government socialists is the central conclusion of the first Report on Democracy in Government and its Citizens Spain, relevant to the year 2006. This The Different strategy of confrontation has affected Levels of Government the workings of democracy in a very The Justice direct way on three different levels: the Administration relationship between the government Political Power – Economic Power and the opposition; everyday life of Pluralism and some institutions central to the system; Independence in the Media and, finally, the coexistence of citizens, with the creation of a divisive The Impact of Corruption on situation among them. Democracy 2 3 In order to produce this Report on Democracy in Spain, Laboratorio Fundación Alternativas assigned a Advisory Board who, joining to the report director, have agreed orientation and design through several sessions, being aware of every paper in process and proposals of final documents. A research team employed by Laboratorio Alternativas has done the collection and selection of information, production of relevant data and the start essay of the different chapters that compound the Report, CONSEJO ASESOR INVESTIGADORES * Estefanía Moreira, Joaquín Bacigalupo Saggese, Mariano Director del Informe Arango Vila-Velda, Joaquín Barreiro Pérez-Pardo, Belén Barreiro Pérez-Pardo, Belén Criado, Olmos, Henar Lafuente Félez, Alberto Fernández Seijo, José María Leguina Villa, Jesús González de la Vega, Ignacio U Maravall Herrero, José María Jiménez Sánchez, Fernando Ontiveros Baeza, Emilio León Alfonso, Sandra Pradera Cortázar, Javier Lledó Callejón, Pablo Sánchez-Cuenca, Ignacio Mulas Granados, Carlos Santamaría Osorio, Julián Ruiz-Rufino, Rubén Eguiagaray Ucelay, Juan Manuel Director Laboratorio de Alternativas Ortiz Vicente, Javier Subdirector Laboratorio de Alternativas EDICIÓN: Fernando Pedrós.
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