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Spain is a parliamentary monarchy. Such a straightforward designation obscures the fact that, through a combination of constitutional design and political practice, neither parliament nor the monarchy wield effective power in Spain’s democracy. The role of the monarchy was always meant to be mainly symbolic; in the case of parliament, however, its increasingly symbolic role was an unintended result of the core executive’s particular structure.
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Heywood, P. (1995). Central Government: Monarchy, Core Executive and Parliament. In: The Government and Politics of Spain. Comparative Government and Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24152-1_5
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