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CONfines de relaciones internacionales y ciencia política
Print version ISSN 1870-3569
Abstract
ZUGASTI, Ricardo. The role of the press in the construction of the Spanish democracy: From Franco's death to the 1978 Constitution. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2008, vol.4, n.7, pp.53-68. ISSN 1870-3569.
Through content analyses focused on the political news on front pages and on the introduction of the democratic values in newspaper editorials, this article outlines the political role of the Spanish press during the principal stage of the transition to democracy, an exceptional journalistic period. This piece of research could be likewise considered as a contribution, through a particular case, to the role of the press in political transitions.
Keywords : press; Spain; journalism history; democracy; political transition.