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In this collaboration, we provide clear evidence of how Antonio García Gutiérrez's political theater serves as a platform to present his liberal political thought to the public and to urge citizens to mobilize against abuses of power. Drawing inspiration from past warlike events, García Gutiérrez crafts the plots of El Trovador (1836) and Juan Lorenzo (1865) to allow the audience to interpret them as relevant to the present. Amid the turmoil of military pronouncements and revolutions in Spain, our author takes the side of the liberal cause and declares himself a defender against abuses of power. Through his dramas, he promotes patriotic theater and contributes to the political socialization of Spaniards, as well as to the reinforcement of patriotic and nationalist sentiments. Beyond the confines of the theater of confrontation between absolutists and liberals, García Gutiérrez's plays aim to reject dogmatic thinking and defend freedom of speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legalisation of same-sex marriages in Spain is the consequence of significant changes in the preferences of the PSOE, that are linked with shifting electoral results and, also, with significant changes in the political and institutional environment of this political party. Legal change, however, was also made possible by the strategies of a social movement willing to shape its claims and tactics in a bid to create new opportunities. The time span covered is 1975 to 2005. The paper draws on current debates on the interaction between social movements and public policy making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public Institutions have to take into account, in their advertising campaignes, every kind of people. Then, social affairs institutions which work for children have to take special cares in their communications. New languages of communication can offer successful formula for this. In Spain there are good examples of this. One of them is Andaluna program, from de andalusian government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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