La teoría sociológica de Pierre Bourdieu proporciona los fundamentos para identificar y
tipificar los capitales en los que se basa la dominación en diversos campos sociales. Sobre …

Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple
members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies …

Dynastic politicians, defined as those whose family members have also served in the same
position in the past, occupy a sizable portion of offices in many parts of the world. We …

A handful of recent studies have investigated the causal effect of incumbency on dynasty
formation in candidate-centered electoral contexts. We use candidate-level data and a …

Although politicians' personal attributes are an important component of elections and
representation, few studies have rigorously investigated which attributes are most relevant in …

We investigate whether politicians whose family relatives previously served in parliament
and cabinet enjoy a competitive “legacy advantage” in progressing from the backbenches to …

Kinship often continues to play an important role in determining the ruling class even under
modern democratic elections in a wide range of countries. In recent years, academic interest …

This article focuses on political dynasties' potential consequences, and particularly
investigates whether and when they lead to the selection of dynastic politicians with …

The authors use administrative data linked to parish records from northern Sweden to study
how persistent inequality is across multiple generations in education, occupation, and …

Does power persist within families? This article considers whether members of the UK
House of Commons with longer legislative careers after 1832 were more likely to establish a …