Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to show the relationship between the nominations for seats in the Cabildo of Buenos Aires between 1776 and 1810 and the network status of councilmen and their families. To this end, we test hypotheses on the relation of network metrics of elite individuals and families with political positions in the council. We find that actors and families with higher degree of connectedness are statistically associated with entrance and access to more prominent positions in the council as indicators of political power. Specifically, more centralized connections seem to assist individuals on the road to higher positions. In the case of families, a more dense structure of overlapped connections may have assured that more members reached higher positions in the Cabildo.
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Notes
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As a tradition in Spanish families, the first last name comes from the father lineage, and the second last name comes from mother lineage.
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Another special case was that of actors that repeatedly widowed. They were assigned to the last family they linked by marriage.
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Names were numbered as a form of codification.
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Unfortunately we could not gather information for the inclusion of other socio-economic control variables.
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JoinNet and JoinCab have a correlation of 0.39.
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A star network is a graph topology with one node as centre and many others connected to this centre and with no other connections.
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We thank Fernando Delbianco for his comments and suggestions made for the previous versions of this chapter. We also thank the two anonymous referees for their remarks and suggestions.
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del Valle, L.C., Larrosa, J.M.C. (2019). Political Power from Elite Family Networks in Colonial Buenos Aires. In: Diebolt, C., Rijpma, A., Carmichael, S., Dilli, S., Störmer, C. (eds) Cliometrics of the Family. Studies in Economic History. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99480-2_8
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