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Pérez-Díaz, Víctor Miguel was born on December 8, 1938 in Madrid. Son of Miguel Pérez-Poyo and Victoria Díaz-Alonso.
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Victor Perez-Diaz examines in detail the return of civil society in Spain. He covers the transition of Spain from a pre-industrial economy, an authoritarian government, and a Roman Catholic-dominated culture to a modern state based on the interaction of economic and class interests, on a market society, on voluntary associations such as trade unions and political parties, and on a culture of moral autonomy and rationality. Perez-Diaz manoeuvres between broad, speculative reflection on the relations between the state and civil society and empirically-based analyses of specific sectors in Spanish society, including the church, the economy, the workers and the unions. In a multidiscipinary approach, the author borrows ideas and methods from history, sociology, and economics and uses them to illuminate the more general problem of modernization in the western world. This book aims to be especially relevant to understanding the ongoing efforts to create civil societies in eastern Europe, and its general argument has implications for social science research. "The Return of Civil Society" should be of interest to sociologists and political scientists and to students of Spanish society, politics, culture, and religion.
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This book explores the trials of Spanish democracy from the death of Franco to the present. But the heart of the story is the generation that came of age in the 1960s, assumed political power, and formed the first Socialist government in 1982 with Felipe González as Prime Minister, which was returned to power in four consecutive elections. Starting in 1993, however, the government came under siege. High officials were accused of authorizing the assassination of as many as twenty-eight Basque nationalists suspected of terrorism over the years, and of covering up these crimes. This scandal, along with other disclosures of corruption and serious law-breaking, shook the country's confidence in its legal and political institutions and in its ability to hold its leaders to the rule of law. The author probes for the roots of these events in the character of the generation that assumed power and in the immature nature of the civil society it inherited. Facing unusually high unemployment, internal economic and social pressures, the stringent requirements for joining the European Union, and the demands of Catalan and Basque nationalists, the government lost its way and was eventually voted out of office. Using Spain as the example, the book examines issues of governance, social change, and internal nationalist movements as they relate to the civil society and the wider polity everywhere.
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Pérez-Díaz, Víctor Miguel was born on December 8, 1938 in Madrid. Son of Miguel Pérez-Poyo and Victoria Díaz-Alonso.
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Harvard University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Complutense University, Madrid, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy in Law, Complutense University, Madrid, 1978.
Fellow Institute Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1976-1977. Research director International Neuroscience Institute Foundation, Madrid, 1977-1980, FIES Foundation, Madrid, 1980-1986. Founding director Center Social Science Juan March Institute, 1987-1992.
Director research center Analistas Socio-Políticos, 1993. Professor sociology Complutense University, Madrid, 1978—2009. Visiting professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1988-1989, University California, LaJolla, 1987-1993, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1992-1993, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1975-1976, Institute national des Sciences & Politiques, Paris, 1994-1995.
Member advisory committee PRISA, Madrid, 1991, Spanish Minister Health, 1996, New School for Social Research, New York, 1999, Hans Spier visiting professor, 1999. Member advisory committee, professor King Juan Carlos Center, New York University, 2000. Member advisory board REPSOL, Madrid, 1993.
( This book explores the trials of Spanish democracy fro...)
(Victor Perez-Diaz examines in detail the return of civil ...)
(Víctor Pérez-Díaz examines the return of civil society in...)
Member Commission on Unemployment Spanish Government, Madrid, 1987-1988, Study Group on Social Policy: European Communities Brussels, 1991-1993. Committee member Social Science Research Council, New York, 1983-1989. Member National Committee Rules Ethical Behavior, 1997-2000, Prize Libre Empresa, 2002, Fund Rafael del Pino.
Member Acadmia Europaea, American Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary member).
Married Marina González Olivares, April 2, 1938.