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Interamerican Journal of Psychology

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Abstract

RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ, Gabriela  and  CRUZ, Karla Patricia. Social identity and political protest at mexican’s democratic transition. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2006, vol.40, n.1, pp. 1-7. ISSN 0034-9690.

A study was done to analyse the influence of the social identity component in the protest actions, on the come about of the desafuero of Mexico’s City Mayor, it means, to permit to be judge by authorities without any legal protection inherent to his charge. From the element that composes social identity only the structure of the intergroup situation as well as the group identification resulted to be variables with predictive capacity. Highlighting that the belonging to organizations, the degree of inclusion on the identification and the political value don’t have an impact on the decision to participate on protest actions against the desafuero of Mexico’s City Mayor.

Keywords : Social perception; Political process; Intergroup characteristics; Value political.

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