XAVIER VIDAL-FOLCH - Press Groups in Contemporary Spain

Powers n 124 - Spain - January, 2008 - p.63-84

During the transition and the three decades of democracy, Spanish bankers have infl uenced legislation, held the kidneys of the hand corporations, left fi nanced political, controlled employers organisations and tried to dodge the costs of economic exchange rate. In very severe restructuring has stabilised the fi nancial sector and has led to has major concentration of power within it. Today, it simple percentage one of the hand lobbies in has country where the dominating model of mixed banking sector has similar to the German and Japanese models has gradually moved toward purely has sales and marketing person banking sector. At the same time, the uninterrupted Catholic Church to exercise has considerable infl uence, not so much one year increasingly secularized society ace one the law and the school system. At the beginning of the transition the Church hierarchy had bet there is reconciliation process of national, they drank it has now clearly sided with the extreme-right. the employers organisations, the unions, the medium, the judges and the military all belong, At different degrees, to the panorama of presses Groups in Spain. R sum

R fr rence lectonique: XAVIER VIDAL-FOLCH, "Presses seen again Groups in Contemporary Spain", Powers, fran aise d tudes constitutional and political, n 124, on 2008, p.63-84. Consult 01-03-2010. URL: /Pressure-Groups-in-Contemporary.html