Purifying Suffrage
The Conservative Attack on Voter Registration in Pre-Violencia Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4983294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francine Cronshaw (University of New Mexico USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 248-263 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.13373 |
| OpenAlex | W4283744830 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article aims to contribute to the new electoral history by examining a specific practice of democracy, the voter registration card, known in Colombia as the citizenship card (cédula). After pursuing the themes of electoral reform and universal suffrage in a broader sense, the article outlines the card's history from its inception in 1929 to its role in the polemics over electoral corruption by the Conservative Party, which ranged over the period before the Violencia. While national-level politics are emphasised, the impact of the card at the municipal level also is suggested, as the critical link between the national and the local
Citizenship · Democracy · Language change · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Suffrage · Universal suffrage · Voter registration · Voting · Historical Studies in Latin America · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration
Elections before Democracy
Entre el antiguo y el nuevo régimen. La historia política hispanoamericana del siglo XIX
Cédula de ciudadanía y documento electoral en Colombia
El valor del análisis cultural para la historiografía de las décadas del treinta y cuarenta en Colombia
El país rural colombiano
Alfonso López Pumarejo and Liberal Radicalism in 1930s Colombia
Elections and Civil Wars in Nineteenth-century Colombia
Electoral Juggling
The Making of Modern Colombia
Entre la legitimidad y la violencia
Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |