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The object of this paper is to examine the Spanish Constitution (1978) using the perspective of modern consitutional political economy. This exercise is an interesting one for two reasons: first it provides a kind of test for the usefulness of the c.p.e. approach and the insights the application of that approach yields; second, it provides an opportunity for a wider readership of a document that is of considerable interest in its own right.
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Comite Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano para Asuntas Educativos y Culturales, the Servei de Formacio Permanent of the University of Valencia and the Institucio Valenciana d'Estudis i Investigacio. We are grateful to Pedro Puy Fraga, Javier Salinas and an anonymous referee for useful comments.
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Brennan, G., Pardo, J.C. A reading of the Spanish Constitution (1978). Constit Polit Econ 2, 53–79 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02393226
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