From political mobilization to electoral participation: turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s

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• dc.contributor.author Amat, Francesc
• dc.contributor.author Boix, Carles
• dc.contributor.author Muñoz, Jordi
• dc.contributor.author Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-28T09:16:55Z
• dc.date.available 2024-10-28T09:16:55Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description Supplemental material files: online appendix; replication files.
• dc.description.abstract This article examines the process of electoral mobilization that follows the extension of voting rights to low-income citizens. We take advantage of a historically unique panel data set of official registers that includes individual voting roll calls as well as individual demographics of almost 25,000 electors in Barcelona in the 1930s, matched with relevant precinct-level socioeconomic, political, and geographical data. We show that voting was driven by the direct mobilization strategies developed by political parties and by those social organizations, such as trade unions, that encompassed an important part of society. This was the case especially among unskilled workers and in areas with a high density of working-class voters. We also show that turnout was shaped by indirect channels, such as the social networks in which partisan ideas and organizations were embedded. To identify the mobilizing effects of organizations, we rely on a variety of strategies, including a sharp, short-term change in an anarchist trade union’s electoral strategies.
• dc.description.sponsorship Support for this research was provided by the VOTREP project, funded by the Spanish State Agency of Research, grant CSO2014-59191-P. This project has also received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020—Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-20), project The Birth of Party Democracy, grant 694318.
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• dc.identifier.citation Amat F, Boix C, Muñoz J, Rodon T. From political mobilization to electoral participation: turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s. J Polit. 2020 Oct;82(4):1559-75. DOI: 10.1086/708684
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708684
• dc.identifier.issn 0022-3816
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68363
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher University of Chicago Press
• dc.relation.ispartof The Journal of Politics. 2020 Oct;82(4):1559-75
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/694318
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2014-59191-P
• dc.rights © University of Chicago Press https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/708684
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• dc.subject.other Sociologia electoral -- Catalunya -- Barcelona -- S. XX
• dc.subject.other Moviments socials -- Aspectes polítics -- Catalunya -- Barcelona -- S. XX
• dc.subject.other Eleccions -- Catalunya -- Barcelona -- S. XX
• dc.subject.other Sociologia política
• dc.title From political mobilization to electoral participation: turnout in Barcelona in the 1930s
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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