El voto de la costumbre. culturas políticas y crisis urbana en Madrid a comienzos del siglo XX

Abstract

During the last decades political historians have renewed their methodologycal approaches to the past in order to provide wider explanations of the political identity of the historical subjects. In this intellectual frame, the concept of political culture has raised as one of the most used tools by both spanish and international scholars. However, the important advances political culture has brought up in the study of ideas and representations have not had their counterpart in the realm of practices or actions from below and regardless of parties and institutions. In this article we try to incorporate those forgotten elements adopting an anthropological, practical and contextual approach to the concept of political culture. The majority of the article lies on a microhistorical exercise in which we make use of our definition of political culture with the aim of measuring the weight of custom and community in the political attitudes of Madrid citizenship in a particular period: the conjuncture of social change, urban transformation and cultural crisis that defined the last years of the Spanish Restoration.