The dialectics of Andalusism/Socialism in the context of the Spanish ‘Transition’ period party system. The emergence of nationalism and the Spanish Socialist Party ('PSOE') strategic appropriation of its contributions (1977-1982)

This work analyses the political-electoral bid, within the ideological field of democratic socialism, between an emerging, novel Andalusian political party (Socialist Party of Andalusia, PSA) and a historical Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). This confrontation, born in the last years of Francoism among Franco’s dictatorship dissidents, is examined in the context of the democratic restoration within the framework of the conquest of Andalusian self-government via the Constitution highest level of competency (article 151).