Search results for "grupos de poder"

Analyse de la planification espagnole comme processus de decision politique

1977

Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’ in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012)

2022

Abstract Beyond the observation of official positions and incorporating the ‘Latent Power Structure’ (LPS), this article offers a broadened view of the organization of democratic governments. We define the LPS as a set of former officials, parliamentary and party members, and business directors who are closely related to government members, since they have recruited one or more of them for certain positions in the past. Applied to a Social Network Analysis of two Spanish governments, the LPS reveals a more concentrated structure of power with a far greater range of resources. The LPS analysis shows that governments rely on certain influential organizations in the social structure, to a grea…