Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled and magnified structural challenges of long-term care (LTC) provision and work across Europe, bringing the need for reforms on the quality-of-care provision and work to the fore in several countries. Focusing on the case of Spain, this paper analyses to what extent the window of opportunity opened by the pandemic resulted in structural LTC reform, focusing on the scope and drivers of policy change/continuity.

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about some extraordinary shifts in citizens’ preferences about intergovernmental responsibilities in several federal states and has therefore provided an especially interesting context to contribute to the ongoing debate about the scope, direction, and determinants of attitudinal change in citizens’ preferences in situations of protracted crisis.

Abstract. Authoritarian elites may play an essential role in transitioning democracies, but little is known about the fate of these elites beyond that of the top leaders. This article offers the first panel-data study of authoritarian elites in a transitional democracy. We focus on Spain, a paradigmatic case of successful democratization from above, and rely on an original dataset to measure quantitatively the professional careers of more than 600 members of the Francoist elites in Spain.

Resumen. La fragmentación y la polarización en el sistema parlamentario español se habían analizado hasta ahora con limitaciones temporales o territoriales. En este trabajo, se exponen los niveles de fragmentación y polarización ideológica en el Congreso de los Diputados y en las cámaras de las 17 comunidades autónomas desde 1979 a 2022. Los hallazgos permiten identificar qué cámaras están más fragmentadas, dónde ha habido más polarización y cómo han evolucionado a lo largo de las legislaturas estos dos rasgos definitorios de todo sistema de partidos.