caa a22 4500 386341451 CHVBK 20180307111753.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1962062 doi S0003055400085993 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1962062 Political Transition, Social Development, and Legal Mobilization in Spain [Elektronische Daten] While it has been frequently asserted that the use of courts is responsive to political and social contexts, the evidence is inconclusive at best. In the case of political context the dearth of evidence may reflect focusing on the U.S. case, where there is relatively limited variation in relevant characteristics. In the case of social context it may reflect a failure to focus on periods of substantial transition. In the present study we examine court usage in Spain between 1960 and 1980. During this period Spain experienced rapid economic growth with its attendant social change and dramatic political transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Both the movement toward democracy and social development are found to be positively linked to increases in legal mobilization. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 Giles Micheal W. Emory University Lancaster Thomas D. Emory University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 817-833 0003-0554 83:3<817 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1962062 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1962062 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Giles Micheal W. Emory University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lancaster Thomas D. Emory University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 817-833 0003-0554 83:3<817 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge