Liberalism and liberal political culture in the Spain of the XIX century

Abstract

This article analyzes the ideological components of liberalism and its dissemination in the 19th century. It contemplates the characteristics of the first Spanish liberalism, its paralelisms with the European liberalism, its enlinghtened roots, and the development of the new culture that emerged from the Constitution of 1812. Spanish liberalism was transformed and progressed throughout the 19th century, reformulating itself as post-revolutionary, moderate, progressive, reformist and democratic ideology. The Cadiz doceanism, being a radical and open liberalism, exercised an attraction in the Spanish democrats and republicans of the XIX century. After the revolutionary emergence of the «Gloriosa» (1868-1873), democratic liberalism found strong obstacles to its developement.