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

Omar García-Ponce and Isabel Laterzo

No wp-2023-96, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Crime; Political reservations; Mexico; Violence; Trust; Democracy; Social cohesion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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