Contentious political participation: developing an explanatory model from social cognition

In this paper we propose to develop an explanatory model of a repertoire of political par-ticipation that involves contentious and vindictive ways. The main objectives of the actions made explicit by respondents themselves were consistent with organizational or labor de-mands. This finding allows us to turn further integration with previous studies on labor protest locally. Data were obtained from a representative sample of the city of Cordoba - Argentina (N = 450). Using a path analysis we determined that the main contribution ex-planatory did psychosocial variables: political interest, right-wing authoritarianism and po-litical collectivism. The collective nature of the actions of this repertoire allows under-stand their dependence on two other psychosocial variables: participatory political efficacy and political efficacy global.