THE SPANISH ELECTORAL REFORM OF 1933. A LAW TO CONSOLIDATE THE SECOND REPUBLIC

This work has the aim of being a monographic study of the electoral law of 1933. Its importance can not be ignored, since the standards outlined rules that parties and candidates adapted in the first two Spanish elections, the November 1933 and February 1936, which were representative of the innovations introduced by the "policy of mass" during the interwar period. The genesis and parliamentary process of this electoral reform, political interests which moved to its sponsors, and the consequences it had in the strategies and the electoral results of parties in the general elections in which this law was in force, are the main objects discussed here.