The Intendant System and the Cabildos of Peru, 1784-1810

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ID2803312
AuthorsJohn Fisher (0000-0003-1922-0145, corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume49
Issue3
Pages430
Publication date1969-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2511779
OpenAlexW4242889849, W2329668429
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Bourbon administrative reform in Spain and in her Empire sought to centralize and improve the structure of government, to create more efficient economic and financial machinery, and in general to restore integrity and respect for law at all levels of administration. In the Empire the viceroyalty of Peru presented perhaps the most obvious need for reform, as its standards of administration had notoriously declined. Before the introduction of the intendant system the cabildos of Peru shared the inertia of other administrative bodies and corporations in the viceroyalty. The conditions of municipal life and government were at least as bad as those which prevailed in the newly formed viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata. The number of regidores permitted for each cabildo varied according to the status of the settlement. In a ciudad such as Lima the maximum was twelve. These posts were normally filled by Creoles; the cabildos were the only important organizations capable of representing exclusively ereole interests

Administration (probate law) · Business · Empire · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Settlement (finance) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Finance · Historical Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies on Spain · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration

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