Abstract

LANDAU, Matías. Political Sociability and Political Groups. University Radicalism in the City of Santa Fe, 2007-2015. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2020, n.58, pp.263-284. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n58a12.

Political sociology studies that analyze party-political dynamics often focus on a national or provincial scale. There are fewer works on the relationship between sociabilities, partisan spaces, and political work at the local level. This article aims to contribute in this direction, based on research carried out in the Argentine city of Santa Fe. The study focuses on a political group known locally as the «university radicals» or the «university group», which is identified as the unit of analysis that allows us to account for the relationship between sociability and politics at the local level. The objective is to show how interpersonal relationships, loyalty, and solidarity ties between individuals with different institutional affiliations and transits built a political group with participation in various institutional spaces (student militancy, university management, political party, municipal administration). We point out various factors in the consolidation of a political group: political identities, generations, mobilizations, institutions, networks, and leaders.

Keywords : Political Parties; Local Politics; Political Groups; Political Sociability; Argentina.

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