“…Despite these contributions, which have been more directed towards institutional analyses than the empirical demonstration of transformations in the elites that directed these institutions during times of institutional change, few studies have sought to analyze the conditions that could have determined these transformations and their respective reconfigurations of the principles of legitimization of the leading elites which were behind these processes (Bordignon, 2013;Codato & Franz, 2018;Coradini, 1997aCoradini, , 1997bCoradini, , 1998Coradini, , 2003Dezalay & Garth, 2002;Garcia, 1993aGarcia, , 1993bGrill, 2015;Grynszpan, 1990;Loureiro, 1997;Martins, 1987;Miceli, 1981Miceli, , 2001aPécaut, 1990;Petrarca, 2017;Saint-Martin, 1988;Seidl, 2008Seidl, , 2010). In the search for a reference which will make it possible to analyze what is being proposed, the reference with the greatest sociological and historical character has been selected, even though it is used as a resource above all in the analysis of trajectories rather than the analysis of institutions.…”