Juan J. Linz papers, 1936-2010, bulk 1950-1989

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Series III: Research and Work


Work with Lipset



Box 3 Folder 1 Correspondence with Lipset, including "Seymour Martin Lipset: In Memorium", 2011


Box 3 Folder 1 Notes for Lipset, Lazarsfeld, et al. for The Psychology of Voting Behavior, other early reports, and on Authoritarian Regimes as Political Forms Distinct from Totalitarian Systems and Political Democracies


Box 3 Folder 1 Notes for Lipset on distinction between legitimacy and efficacy (1963) and comments on paper on Social Requisites of Democracy


Box 3 Folder 2 Inventory of Political Behavior (1955) for Lipset on Marx-Engels, Class and Politics: Class Conflict as a Model and as an Example of Analysis, 1955


Box 3 Folder 2 Inventory (1955) for Lipset on religion and politics, with Schram and Dutch survey as well as Australian survey data, 1955


Box 3 Folder 3 Material for Lipset (Political Diversity): The Politics of Professions


Box 3 Folder 3 Material for Lipset (Political Diversity): Rural Voting Behavior


Box 3 Folder 4 Material for Lipset (Political Diversity): Business and Politics


Box 3 Folder 4 Material for Lipset (Political Diversity): The Politics and Middle Classes in Different Countries


Box 3 Folder 4 Material for Lipset (Political Diversity): Politics and the Life Cycle


Box 3 Folder 4 The Social Bases of Political Western Democracy, Volume I (Ch. I-VII)


Box 3 Folder 4 The Social Bases of Political Western Democracy, Volume II (Ch. VIII-XI)


Box 3 Folder 4 The Social Bases of Political Western Democracy, Volume III (Ch. XII-XIII)


Box 3 Folder 4 The Social Bases of Political Diversity in Western Democracy, Section on Socioeconomic Position, Occupation and Status and their Relationships to Politics


Box 3 Folder with transcripts from George Mosse Seminar on Fascism at Stanford, 1963


Linz Research and Work



Box 4a SSRC Authoritarianism Proposal


Box 4a The Eight Spains (First Version, with much more concentrated focus on the and Catalan questions)


Box 4a Political Violence, the Grimau Case, and Data on Violence in the 2nd Republic


Box 4a Fascism (Biographic data)


Box 4a Intellectuals (Original Interview Material with Spanish Intellectuals from 1971)


Box 4a Reviews of Linz Work


Box 4a Book Reviews by Linz


Box 4a Materials of Interest on Spain, 1950s-1960s

mostly from 1950s and 1960s, with some proposals for projects and data


Box 4a Quien es quien en las cortes (Who is who in the Cortes)


Box 4a Los alcaldes, 1960s


Box 4a Material on Spanish Professions, mucho on Colegio de Abogados in Madrid, 1959


Box 4a Material from the end of the 1950s about the Realidad asociativa de los españoles, 1950s


Box 4a Data on domestic service with use of Spanish census


Box 4a Data on Spanish social structure, material on growth of cities, industrial with use of 1940 Spanish Census


Box 4a Proposal for lnforme FOESSA on 1976 referendum


Box 4a Notes on the social structure of Spain, mid to late 1970s

Much of the material reads like a draft for a paper, close to complete. Includes many good tables, material on bureaucratization, social structure, Madrid versus Barcelona, etc.


Box 4a Notes on stratification analysis and the study of social structures. Unpublished paper, probably late 1950s or early 1960s

General, not focused on Spain


Box 4a Copies of original version of "Authoritarian Regime" article, along with some early drafts and some documentation for footnotes


Box 4a Notes in preparation for "A Century of Interest Group Politics", late 1970s-early 1980s

Including hand-written exploration of the comparison with Italy not in final version)


Box 4a Material on controversies surrounding lnforme FOESSA and Conflicto en Euskadi



Box 4b Spanish Youth Survey questionnaires, 1960


Box 4b Material on urbanization and agrotowns (Folder 1)



Box 4c Data on urbanization and agrotowns (Folders 2 and 3)


Box 4c Historia Folder: La Sociedad: De la República a la Democracia (con la colaboración de Rocío de Terán) (Photos), 1986, 650 pages

This manuscript is not finished. It was to be the for a complete social history of Spain from the republic through the transition to democracy. Juan and Rocio worked on it for several there are many pages with paragraphs excerpted from source material without references given. These references were to be completed later. Please be sure not to cite this as work from Juan and Rocío, since insistent that the reference sources needed to be credited.


Partially Published Papers



Box 5 Geneva paper

Sections. Poland: Charisma, and Authoritarianism without Fascism; Hungary, Romania, etc., on comparative fascisms (Only first part published, only in German and Italian)


Box 5 "Legislature in Organic Statist Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Spain"

published in part in Smith and Musolf, eds., Legislatures in Development


Box 5 "Notes toward a paper on Europe's Southern Frontier" (Very different paper from one published with same title in Daedalus), 1979


Box 5 PCE Paper (published in part in Schwab)


Box 5 "Crisis o f a Unitary State: Peripheral Nationalisms and Regionalism"

much longer version


Box 5 The Asamblea Nacional de Primo de Rivera

English version, only published in Spanish


Box 5 Section not included in final version of 2002 paper on "Parties in Contemporary Democracies"


Box 5 Edinburgh Paper "Time and Regime Change

with critique of Kirkpatrick, most likely misplaced


Box 5 "Legacy of Franco and Democracy"


Unpublished papers


Box 5 "Parliaments and Cabinets: Political Elites in Changing Societies" (Libro Elites, Edinger, sin publicar) (Photos)


Box 5 "Nationalisms in Spain in Comparative Perspective" (Bielefeld paper) (Photos)


Box 5 "Some Thoughts towards a Characterization of Post-Totalitarian Regimes" (Photos)


Box 5 "Crisis of Political Parties or Why Parties Will Not be the Same" (Washington Paper), 1997


Box 5 "Stability and Regime Change" (Paper for presentation at colloquium, Werner-Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg, sin publicar) (Photos), 1981


Box 5 "The Inauguration of Democratic Government and its Consequences in Spain (1) (1967 Bellagio Meeting) (Photos)"Nature of Spanish Society: A sociologist's View" (Photos), 1967


Box 5 "The Nature of Spanish Society: A sociologist's view" (Photos)


Box 5 "Some thoughts on Spanish Politics and Society Facing the Mid-Seventies (Photos)


Box 5 "A Spanish Sociologist Looks at Anthropological Research on Contemporary Spain" (Photos), 1967

Paper presented at Symposium on "Spain: Regional Diversity and Comparability" at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington


Box 5 "Size and Democracy: Some Random Notes on the Dahl and Tufts Paper" (IPSA, Turin) (Photos), 1969


Box 5 "A Progress Report of Comparative National and International Time Series on Social, Economic, and Political Change in Spain and Italy" (in collaboration with Pedro Gonzalez Blasco) (Photos)


Box 5 "Social Structure and Democracy in Southern Europe" (Photos), 1993


Box 5 "The Question of Identity: Suggestions for the Core European Social (Photos)


Box 5 "Spanish Society 1936-1986" (Photos)


Box 5 Chapter drafts for a monograph in English on Spain

Chapter 1, land and the people; chapter 2, the historical past; chapter 3, Civil war and the emergence of the Franco regime; chapter 4, the social system; chapter 5, the official institutions; chapter 6, the permanent institutions; chapter 7, ideological tendencies; chapter 8, the political process; chapter 9, The elite; chapter 10, change despite continuity (Photos)


Box 5 Estudio sociológico para el planteamiento de una campaña electoral en la provincial de la Coruña (DATA) (Photos), May 1967, 250+ pages


Box 5 "Spain: Parliamentary Elites before Franco" (Photos)


Box 5 Berlin Paper on states, nations, nationalism, and democracy (Photos), 1994


Box 5 Notes for reunion in Bucharest applying Rokkan (Photos), 1994


Box 5 "Democratization and Types of Democracies: New for Comparativists" (Glasgow) (Photos), 1996


Box 5 Some Notes Toward a Comparative Analysis of Non-Competitive and Semi-Competitive Elections and Their Functions and Dysfunctions in Different of Political Systems" (ISA-IPSA) (Photos), 1976


Box 5 "Some Not Too Hopeful about the Future" (multinationalism, democracy, Basque Country) (Photos), late 1970s


Box 5 "From an Authoritarian Regime to Democracy: The Case of Spain'' (Photos)


Box 5 "Spain: A New Democratic Monarchy" (Photos)


Box 5 Thoughts on Decentralization, Devolution and the Many Varieties of Democratic Federal Arrangements (with Alfred Stepan, Indonesia) (Photos), 1998


Box 5 "Defining and Crafting Democratic Constitutions and Consolidation" (with Alfred Stepan, Indonesia) (Photos), 1998


Box 5 "La instauración de la democracia y, con ella, la nueva constitución, consideraciones de un sociólogo de la politica" (Photos)


Box 5 Estructura y dinamica de los grupos socioles en España, 1967, 240 pages


Box 5 "The Asamblea Nacional of Primode Rivera" (in English)


Box 5 Notes for possible paper on Intellectuals and Society: The Spanish Case

Correspondence with Eisenstadt which led to paper on intellectuals in Spain 16th-18th centuries. However, these notes include many ideas for the study of 20th century intellectuals.