The study of parliamentary elites in Latin America: past, present and future

Abstract

This paper aims to present the methodology used by the Parliamentary Elites of Latin America Project, led by Manuel Alcántara at the University of Salamanca. After more than twenty years of research, this paper emphasizes the methodology used, its most important inputs and its future challenges. All it contextualized in the growing importance of the analysis of elites in Latin America from a comparative perspective.