Resumen

SALTALAMACCHIA, Homero  y  SILVETI, María Isabel. Political regime and limit to collective action: The case of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Polis [online]. 2012, vol.8, n.1, pp.67-113. ISSN 2594-0686.

This article analyzes a social movement generated by people and organizations excluded from the social-economic and political structure, in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, as also its limitations. It begins with a description of the peculiar characteristics of the social relation system that organizes the province; a regime in which the democratic-republican institutions are upheld and resignified by a complex favor exchange network that permeates across all social strata and contributes to some kind of specific stability. The description of the movements avatars allows identification of important elements that lead to believe: a) given the regime's characteristic, the possible opposition schemes may be easily controlled by means of transformistic operations; and b) dominant culture among different strata and spheres of society allow and foster such a system's reproduction, at least while the conditions that make it feasible are not altered by national processes, which's analysis exceeds this articles pretensions.

Palabras llave : patronage system; patrimonialism; system of exchanging favors; juarismo.

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