This volume compares the Spanish and Latin American double transitions to liberal democracy and an openmarket economy. Spains transitions in the 1960 to 1980s have become the paradigmatic case of successful institutional transformation and thus the standard for the evaluation of the economic and political change in Latin America and CentralEastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Even though most Latin American countries have transformed their economies and polities in recent decades and the outc