Jorge Tamames is an assistant professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University and a Fellow at Future Policy Lab. He has worked as a speech writer at Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights and Consumer Affairs, and is the author of For the People: Left Populism in Spain and the US.

August 27, 2025

Analysis

Growing Pains

Spain’s search for a new growth model

How can a Sánchez administration that enacts a successful progressive agenda—and a PSOE party that retains and even increases its share of voters while handling a succession of unprecedented crises—become so fragile electorally? To grasp the extent of this vulnerability,…