Multidimensional Analysis of Individual Determinants of Demonstrations Participation in Argentina

Authors

  • Sebastián Pereyra Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales/Universidad Nacional de San Martín
  • Melchor Armesto Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales/Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Keywords:

political participation; social protests; demonstrations; determinants; Argentina

Abstract

This text provides a set of contributions to the political participation research field. A multi causal analysis of the individual determinants of participation in demonstrations is developed and tested. We use data from a survey on political participation developed within the framework of the POLPART project (ERC-European Research Council, 2017). This work allows us to observe the particularities of the determinants of participation in demonstrations, as a particular and specific type of protest. It provides data on non-central countries such as Argentina, in which this type of research is not abundant. It presents a multi causal model that tests, using logistic regression models, the main hypotheses - existing in the specialized literature- on individual determinants of participation. The paper shows that several of this models are important to explain participation in demonstrations but, in turn, that none of them is conclusive.

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2021-10-18

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Pereyra, S. ., & Armesto, M. . (2021). Multidimensional Analysis of Individual Determinants of Demonstrations Participation in Argentina. Desarrollo Económico. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 61(233), 30–54. Retrieved from https://revistas.ides.org.ar/desarrollo-economico/article/view/134

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Vol. 61 No. 233 (2021)

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