Authoritarian legacy and support for the modern day far-right and far-left in Spain

• In Event: European Polarization

Brief Overview

In this paper I ask to what extent support for the Spanish far-right is linked to the country’s legacy of authoritarianism by comparing vote shares for Vox and attitudes towards Franco’s dictatorship across all 19 regional parliaments.

Author

• Sally Bonsall, University of Nebraska at Omaha