Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2977762
AutoresCastellar Granados (0000-0003-1690-3645, Asociación Universitaria Iberoamericana de Postgrado, autor de correspondencia), Francisco Sánchez (0000-0002-0054-8848, Asociación Universitaria Iberoamericana de Postgrado)
Año2025
Volumen67
Número1
Páginas56-74
Fecha de publicación2025-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/lap.2024.29
OpenAlexW4402650937
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3

During the last decades, political distrust has seemingly become a common trend across Latin American democracies, however, differences in the levels of confidence among groups have also been identified. This article considers the potential effects of ethno-racial structures and their interactions with other forms of socioeconomic inequalities on political trust. Building on data from four waves of the Latinobarometer project and contextual measures from different sources, we analyze these relations and find that both socioeconomic and ethno-racial inequalities affect political trust and impact on the formation of different relations with the political system across Latin America. Furthermore, in particular it is found that at the individual-level interactions between inequalities shape political trust differently depending on the particular ethno-racial identification. These findings contribute to the understanding of ethnicity and race and its associations with other structural inequalities in shaping mass political culture

Development economics · Economics · Inequality · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Politics and Society in Latin America · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics