social inequality

Deep Politics: Community Adaptations to Political Clientelism

By Turid Hagene and Iñigo González de la Fuente
August 24, 2016

La particular historia de Deep Politics. Community Adaptations to Political Clientelism in Twenty-Firt-Century Mexico comienza a partir de una búsqueda en el Google Scholar. En la labor de encontrar indicadores de calidad a sus publicaciones, el profesor González-Fuente detectó que uno de sus primeros artículos sobre clientelismo político (González-Fuente, 2007) había sido citado por la profesora Hagene.

Transatlantic Immigration and the Social Origins of Elites in Late Colonial Spanish America

By Hillel Eyal
June 15, 2016

The pervasive problem of social inequality in Latin America, manifested in a huge chasm between immensely wealthy elites and poor masses, has its origins in the colonial era. For three hundred years, Spanish American economic elites were made up of immigrants from the Iberian peninsula who got rich by entering the highly lucrative enterprises of wholesale commerce and the production of export goods, such as silver and sugar.

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