Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2008

El papel de la prensa en la construcción de la democracia española: de la muerte de Franco a la Constitución de 1978

Ricardo Zugasti

January 2008

CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política

Abstract

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.