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Victory and crisis: introduction

In recent decades, unmistakable advances have been made in the area of political democracy. During the second half of the 1970s, decisive changes in a democratic direction took place in Spain and in other Mediterranean countries. Authoritarian rule has not, since then, been represented on the political map of Western Europe. Similar developments, though less farreaching, have occurred in Latin America. The dictatorial regimes (usually of a military type), which had dominated the continent for so long, were to a large extent swept away during the 1980s. In Eastern Europe, the existing wall of a…