Social networks of governmental power in recent Spanish democracy
Keywords:
power, Social Network Analysis, elites, cohesion, crisis of representation.
Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing two recent Spanish democratic governments: the Popular Party government in 2012 and the Socialist Party executive in 2004. Both governmental agencies are studied and understood as social networks that emerge from the links their members established in the past when they coincided in different power groups: executive, legislative, political, business and bureaucratic institutions. This study reveals two types of structural elements in both cases: firstly, a high degree of cohesion within each government and, secondly, a relevant set of links that relate the executive to several power groups of the social structure.Downloads
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Published
2018-11-05
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Villena Oliver A. y Vallejo Peña F. A. (2018). Social networks of governmental power in recent Spanish democracy. Historia y Comunicación Social, 23(2), 489-508. https://doi.org/10.5209/HICS.62270
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