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Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was once a darling of European social democracy, and was and remains a villain for the Spanish political right. Leading the Socialist Party (PSOE) to a surprise electoral victory in 2004, following the Islamist terrorist attacks on the Madrid commuter train system, he enacted a striking set of progressive reforms (Bosco & Sánchez-Cuenca 2009; Field 2011).
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Field, B.N., Botti, A. (2013). Introduction: Political Change in Spain, from Zapatero to Rajoy. In: Field, B.N., Botti, A. (eds) Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137306623_1
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