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The legacy of Mexico's Drug War on youth political attitudes

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  • Omar García-Ponce
  • Isabel Laterzo

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We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico, where an entire generation of youths has been raised amid the country's most violent conflict over the past century. We fielded an in-person survey to nearly 3,000 urban youths, measuring various sociopolitical attitudes such as trust in institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice.

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  • Omar García-Ponce & Isabel Laterzo, 2023. "The legacy of Mexico's Drug War on youth political attitudes," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-96, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2023-96
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    Crime; Political reservations; Mexico; Violence; Trust; Democracy; Social cohesion;
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