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Vote and Protest in Argentina and Brazil: contemporary research based reflections on political participation
Fecha
2017-08Registro en:
Pena, Camila; Rosa, Marcelo; Pereyra, Sebastian; Vote and Protest in Argentina and Brazil: contemporary research based reflections on political participation; Sociedade Brasileira de Sociologia; Sociologies in dialogue; 3; 2; 8-2017; 96-117
2447-2670
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Pena, Camila
Rosa, Marcelo
Pereyra, Sebastian
Resumen
The article presents a comparative analysis of recent citizen?s reflections on politi-cal participation in Argentina and Brazil. Throughout the recollection of data from focus groups carried out in 2015 and 2016, we aim to discuss the ways the partici-pants conceived and related the compulsory act of voting with the participation in the recent wave of demonstration in both countries. In the cases presented, there was a prevalent understanding of voting and protesting as complementary forms of political engagement and the participation in protests was conceived as a form to compensate the limitations of formal electoral politics.