Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados (Salamanca University): Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America
| Dates: | 29 January 2025 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados |
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Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series:
Wed 29 January 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166
Abstract: 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.
Francisco Sánchez is the Director of the Iberoamerican Institute, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Castellar Granados is a doctoral student at the Iberoamerican Institute, University of Salamanca, Spain.
Speaker
Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados
Role: Director and Researcher
Organisation: Iberoamerican Institute, University of Salamanca
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online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166
