From the Streets to the City Council. Popular Protest and the Conquest of Local Institutions in Madrid (1909)

  • Carlos Hernández Quero Personal Investigador en Formación (FPU). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • Santiago de Miguel Salanova Becario de Atracción de Talento de la Comunidad de Madrid 2017. Modalidad 2. Jóvenes doctores.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CHCO.60331
Keywords: Madrid, urban society, municipal elections, collective action, social outcries, Restoration’s Crisis, Conjunción Republicano-Socialista.

Abstract

This article analyses the electoral success gathered by the left-wing political parties in Madrid in the municipal elections held on May and December of 1909, both inserted in a framework of social and political turmoil during the crisis of Antonio Maura`s Government. Avoiding the classic schemes of electoral sociology studies based on the merely reproduction of campaigns and results, this text gives prominence to the process of urbanization in Madrid and to the development of new mechanisms of collective action and social outcries in its neighbourhoods. This empirical exercise stresses the significance of municipal elections that allowed republicans and socialists the access to the official institutions and the management of public space in Madrid.

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Published
2018-05-23
How to Cite
Hernández Quero C. y de Miguel Salanova S. (2018). From the Streets to the City Council. Popular Protest and the Conquest of Local Institutions in Madrid (1909). Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 40, 245-273. https://doi.org/10.5209/CHCO.60331
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Vol. 40 (2018): Dossier: Masculinities, nation and civilization in contemporary Spain
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