Mean Streets: Power, Ideology and the Politics of Public Memory

• In Event: Historical Legacies and Political Outcomes

Brief Overview

Using data from street names in Spain, we show that policy-makers of the same ideological space (left-right) as a defunct authoritarian regime are more likely to keep its symbolic legacies.

Authors

• Ana Ruipérez Núñez, European University Institute

• Elias Dinas, EUI