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CORDUNEANU, Victoria Isabela. The Role of Social and Personal Emotions in Political Participation. Rev. mex. opinión pública [online]. 2019, n.26, pp.71-96. ISSN 2448-4911.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.24484911e.2019.26.66903.

The paper analyzes the influence of emotions, affects and feelings upon political participation, be it traditional o social. We used a qualitative approach for studying the social mobilizations of 2014, linked to the Ayotzinapa case and the anti-Trump protest in February 2017, as well as a quantitative approach in a panel research on reported emotions before and after the July 2018 elections. The main finding is that both social and socialized emotions as well as personal emotions have an important role in the political participation of the citizens. We also describe which emotions were publicly expressed since the first mobilizations in May 2012, and how they changed up to 2018: they passed from anger, to fear, frustration and moved to hope and tranquility after the 2018 election. A limitation of the study is that it considers, on one side, the social and socialized emotions for the case of social mobilizations and, on the other side, the personal emotions in the case of the electoral campaign; though we should consider the need to more theoretical and conceptual work in the topic of emotions.

Palavras-chave : Political participation; emotions; affective turn; elections; social movements.

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