Violencia, legitimidad y poder local. La construcción simbólica de la dictadura franquista en una comarca alicantina. El Vinalopó Medio, 1939-1948
ISSN: 1579-3311, 2386-4745
Year of publication: 2002
Issue Title: Instituciones y sociedad en el franquismo
Issue: 1
Pages: 197-222
Type: Article
More publications in: Pasado y memoria: Revista de historia contemporánea
Abstract
Among the most notable techniques used by the Franco regime to entrench its power, were those pertaining to the symbolic dimension of politics, bearing on the first stages of the process of building a consensus. The search for legitimacy beyond the institutional framework that provided it with legal sanction, moved the regime to implement policies of social control in order to unify social support and obtain the acceptance for control measures of a majority of society. This article examines the role played by local institutions, by means of a series of measures designed to occupy the public domain -which may be seen as an instrument of symbolic unification and submission- in which the Catholic Church was a central figure.