Resumen

RABBIA, Hugo H.  y  BRUSSINO, Silvina. Practice and Membership: Reasons for Partisan Affiliation in Cordoba, Argentina. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2012, vol.20, n.39, pp.91-116. ISSN 0188-7653.

We analyze the individual motives of political party affiliation as a central variable that help us to characterize the party affiliation as a practice and as belonging to a party organization. The study was conducted through questionnaires, and the sample was integrated by 428 citizens over 18 and under 65 years old, from Cordoba, Argentina. We propose a categorization of the motives of affiliation, inductively constructed, that recovers the theoretical conceptualization from the sociology of the organizations and the socio-cognitive psychology. Likewise, we analyze the relationship between the different affiliation motives, the party and electoral practices, and the perception of efficiency and importance that the affiliation has for the participants.

Palabras llave : party affiliation; party affiliation motives; party affiliation efficacy; party affiliation importance; political party practices; electoral participation.