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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 5 page paper examines the long political
regime(1937-1975) of Francisco Franco of Spain.
It discusses how Franco kept power through the
historic caciquismo, the system of networking,
patronage, vote buying, and pocketing of public
unds, showing how in time that system went under-
ground but still continued.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBfranco.doc.
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was appointed as a general at age 32. Civil war began in Spain in 1936. Franco and his rebels defeated
the Loyalists in 1939. Franco named himself the new head of the Spanish government and army. Franco declared neutrality for Spain during World War II. His fascist
political party was the Falange - the one and only political party(1937-1975). How did Franco maintain his power for so long? How Franco Kept Power The problem that attracted the
most passionate interest at the time was the corruption of political life, conceived as a divorce between the "real" and the "official" Spain. Critics saw the core of the problem
in caciquismo, the system of networking, patronage, vote buying, and pocketing of public funds underlying the agreement of the previous liberal political parties.
Caciquismo meant that both the Liberal and the Conservative parties, using the Ministry of the Interior and provincial civil governors, manipulated parliamentary elections. They also used the resources of
a highly centralized state to reward or punish their followers, thus squashing broad political mobilization among the population. But when historians
write about the war and the long Franco dictatorship (1937-75), they often ignore the subject of caciquismo. During the first decade of the Franco regime, while the political parties
of the Restoration and many of their representatives and ideological expressions had disappeared, the interests that they defended and their ways of practicing politics had not. Rather, these old methods
survived and flourished. The Franco dictatorship was an "authoritarian" regime in which "political families"--Catholic, Monarchist, Falangist, Carlist, and the army--shared power.
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