Clientelismo e historia política: algunas puntualizaciones sobre viejos temas

Abstract

Clientelismo e historia política: algunas puntualizaciones sobre viejos temas

The article aims at a new and innovating approach at some of the main aspects embodied in the binomial formed by political history and patronage system. After examining in its most meaningful aspects the contents of the socalled nueva historia política, the Author stresses some points about the centreperiphery relationships’ problem in Nineteenth Century’s Spain, and then focuses his attention on one of the most interesting aspects of the political life of these years: the patronage system relationships.