The Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy meant a break with the democratic Sixth, during which the ruling classes were overwhelmed by revolutionary events, threatened their interests, and questioned the traditional social order. With the new regime, the social order prior to the sixth year was restored and the democratic liberal drift that was supposed to be rectified was rectified, meaning a real conservative reaction whose objective was to ensure the exclusive participation of the propietary minorities in life politics. The monopolization of power on the part of the dynastic parties left out of the political game other forces and broad sectors of society. Guaranteeing the efficiency of the alternation in power between the two dynastic forces demanded to have to reduce the opposing forces to inoperability, which was achieved through the adulteration of the electoral processes, Violent repression and a whole legal framework.
Specifically, I have focused my work in the period 1875-1890 and I have focused on the analysis of an aspect that I consider to be fundamental: the way in which, to establish its domination, the various restorationist governments organized the defense of their interests and of the social order, in front of the resistance of different sectors or social groups. It becomes difficult to understand the nature of this new state model without figuring out what mechanisms of repression have to resort to. Finding out what was the policy of public order gives us the keys to what type of state it is intended to create and at the service of which social groups and economic interests was.
The new regime, in spite of its liberal and bourgeois spirit, presented a marked oligarchic character and little propitious to the establishment of a truly democratic system. Thus, to replace the lack of a free and democratically accepted authority, a solid repressive apparatus was used that, faced with the weakness of the civil power, ended circumscribed to the military or militarized sphere.
Thus, it is necessary to clarify the image of the Restoration as a period of peace and stability. The conspiracies posed by the forces that were left out of the system, in particular Republicans and Carlists, and the conflicts posed by the so-called social issue, as well as the emergence of modern nationalisms, questioned restorative tranquility
