Conclusions

Abstract

The Portuguese and Spanish governments adopted different approaches to the military’s subordination through the authoritarian, transitional, and early democratic periods. This monograph has identified and compared the combinations of tools and their evolution, paying special attention to the impact of some past macro-historical events and environmental factors. For that endeavour, this book has relied on historical research of multiple primary and secondary sources, on a comparative framework borrowed from the field of public policy (Hood’s NATO scheme), and on neo-institutionalist theory. This final chapter recapitulates the contribution of this book.