The Spanish Frustration: How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State

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Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy.

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Josep M. Colomer is professor of political science at Georgetown University, USA. He is a founding member of the Spanish Political Association, a member by election of the Academy of Europe and a life member of the American Political Science Association, which have awarded several of his works. Colomer is the author or editor of many books, a number of which have been published in five languages, including The European Empire (2016), How Global Institutions Rule the World (2014) and The Science of Politics (2010).