La reputación del notable. Escándalos y capital simbólico en la España liberal

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ID7295352
AuthorsPol Dalmau (0000-0003-0011-5716, Leibniz Institute of European History, corresponding author)
Year2018
Issue39
Pages79-107
Publication date2018-04-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoria y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1575-0361 • E-ISSN: 1989-063X
PublisherCentro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.18042/hp.39.04
OpenAlexW2802625749
LanguageES
Citations received3
References cited8

This article analyses the importance that prestige and reputation played in the social legitimacy of liberal elites. While the literature has traditionally assumed that the social preeminence of liberal elites relied on their control of the “mechanisms of influence” (e.g. clientelism and patronage), and to their adscription to broader spaces of sociability (e.g. political parties and networks of affinity), our intention is to examine the function that public image played in the survival (and decline) of political elites. By focusing on a scandal that affected one of the great press baron dynasties in Barcelona, the article will uncover the historical transformation of moral values concerning the values of legitimacy and authority, and at the same time examine how the growing importance of public opinion and the press profoundly transformed routine liberal politics. In this way, scandals will be used as an heuristic tool to renew the study of elites based on an interdisciplinary perspective that combines cultural and media history

Humanities · Political science · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History of Education in Spain · Philosophy · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

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