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REA RODRIGUEZ, Carlos Rafael. Gasconism: The Emergence of a Regional Political Culture. Desacatos [online]. 2007, n.25, pp.145-162. ISSN 2448-5144.

This paper analyzes a leftist regional political culture: the Gasconism in Nayarit (in reference to Alejandro Gascón Mercado, an emblematic figure of the left in that Mexican state for nearly three decades).Thanks to the succesful and influential administration of the XXVI Municipal Government of Tepic (1972-1975) by the Partido Popular Socialista, this political culture became a symbolic matrix that nurtured the formation of leftist political identities not only within party members, but also among broad population segments at the municipal and state levels. On a second phase of the analysis, this paper studies the components and operations of the identity formation process spawned by the gasconist culture.

Palavras-chave : political culture; political identity; gasconism.