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TAMAYO, Sergio. Las plazas sí votan. Etnografía política comparada de los cierres de campaña electoral, 2000-2006. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2007, vol.22, n.65, pp.217-249. ISSN 2007-8358.

Electoral rallies in public plazas cannot predict the winner of the elections, although they do reflect the cultural dimension of politics. In this article, the qualitative analysis of electoral rallies explains both the existence of alternative projects for citizenship and the nation and their conflictive rootedness in political culture. By comparing the different political parties' rallies in 2000 and 2006, the author looks in detail at three components of political culture: symbolic physical space, social space and discursive space.

Palavras-chave : political culture; spaces of citizenship; political parties; election campaigns; political appropriation of public space.