HISTAGRA Vicenzo Barra researcher thesis reading



Title: Civil society and political system in the liberal states of Spain and Italy: the client networks of Abilio Calderón Rojo and Michele Capozzi

Author: Vincenzo Barra

Directorr: Margarita Barral Martínez and Xosé Ramón Veiga Alonso

Court: President: Ramón Villares Paz (USC); Member: Mª Antonia Peña Guerrero (Univ. Huelva)

Secretary: Rafael Serrano García (Univ. Valladolid)

Department: Escola de Doutoramento Internacional (EDI) in Arts and Humanities, Social and Xuridic Sciences

Center: Xeography and History Faculty

Date and place of reading: 02/20/2020 16:30, Teachers Room. Xeography and History Faculty

Summary:

The thesis research aims to improve the understanding, in comparative perspective, of the similarities and differences between the Spanish caciquismo of the Bourbon Restoration system (1876-1923) and the Italian case from the fall of the Destra Storica ( 1876-1922). It focuses mainly on the relationship between turnismo and trasformism, in addition to the function of clientelism. With this claim, the political elections of Abilio Calderón Rojo (1867-1939), deputy for Palencia between 1898 and 1923 and minister on different occasions, and those of Michele Capozzi (1836-1917), deputy of Atripalda between 1867 and 1904 and President of the Provincial Council for four decades.