TY - RPRT TI - Cabildo Elite Network as a Structure of Political Power in Colonial Buenos Aires AU - Valle, Del AU - C, Laura AU - Larrosa, Juan M. C. AB - The aim of this paper 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 council individuals and families. We test hypothesis on the importance of networks metrics of elite individuals and families with political positions in the council. We find that actors and families with higher degree are statistically associated with diverse indicators of political power. CY - Rochester, NY DA - 2015/07/05/ PY - 2015 DP - papers.ssrn.com M3 - SSRN Scholarly Paper PB - Social Science Research Network SN - ID 2626859 UR - http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2626859 Y2 - 2015/07/16/09:30:49 KW - Cabildo KW - elite families KW - late colonial Buenos Aires KW - political power KW - social networks analysis ER -