Abstract

GALIMBERTI, Vicente Agustín. La unanimidad en debate: Los procesos electorales en la campaña de Buenos Aires entre 1815 y 1828. Bol. Inst. Hist. Argent. Am. Dr. Emilio Ravignani [online]. 2012, n.37, pp.85-114. ISSN 0524-9767.

This article examines the electoral processes developed in the countryside of Buenos Aires between 1815 and 1828, focusing in discussing its so-called unanimous character. We consider that the issue of unanimity is central, since it assumes the absence of conflicts, the total control of the electoral process by the local authorities and the subordination of the countryside to the city. At the same time, it means considering the town and the rural inhabitants as passive and simple receptors of the construction of a new legitimacy, and the mechanisms to put it into practice which originated in the city and the elites. Therefore, our aim consists of putting to the test this historiographical interpretation starting with electoral sources and the practices observed in them, which show a different and a more complex reality.

Keywords : Political history; Elections; Unanimity; Buenos Aires countryside; Local authorities.