Abstract

LODOLA, Germán. Subnational political recruitment. Social composition and political careers of governors inArgentina. colomb.int. [online]. 2017, n.91, pp.85-116. ISSN 0121-5612.  https://doi.org/10.7440/colombiaint91.2017.03.

The academic interest for the study of governors in Latin America grew within the last years. But there are only a few works upon the political recruitment of these individuals. This article examines the role of informal variables related to the social origins of governors, and of formal variables linked to the structure (scope and mobility) of their political careers. These matters are analysed through a database in Argentina where the governors historically have been powerful stakeholders; taken from non-edited autobiographic information for the period 1983-2014. Empiric evidence accounts for that provincial leaders possess certain social highlighted features: they are mostly middle aged men of urban middle class and developing traditional professions, most of them with political family links. On the other hand these governors, previous to the conquest of the governorship, depict three types of career modalities according to some data: focused in provincial bureaucracy, immerse in the national Congress and expanded from the municipal political level.

Keywords : Argentina; governors; subnational politics; political recruitment; political careers; family relations.

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