▪ Abstract This review addresses key issues in the study of Latino politics. Foremost among
these is the question of low voter turnout. Such factors as income, education, nativity …

" From Anchorage, Alaska to Miami, Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took
to the streets to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The size and scope of their …

Building on the literature that investigates citizen and voter trust in government, we analyze
the topic of voter confidence in the American electoral process. Our data comes from two …

Objective. Existing research establishes that political trust is not only an important
determinant of individual political behavior and government effectiveness, but may also …

This article utilizes data from the Latino National Survey (2006) to analyze temporal and
spatial variation in the effects of the immigrant rights marches in 2006 on Latino attitudes …

Though much attention has been given to the effect of ethnicity on perceptions of the police,
few studies had focused on Latino immigrants. Using research conducted in an immigrant …

America, focusing mainly on elections since the late 1990s. Like most large-scale research
projects, this book has a long and complex history, and its origins lie in our mutual teaching …

The growth of the Latino population and the increasing political importance of this group
leads to questions about the potential political importance of this group. As such, it is …

Several recent studies show that immigrants exhibit higher levels of trust in public institutions
than natives. This study uses pooled data from the European Social Survey to examine …

The role of the state in the promotion of social or generalized trust is one of the most
important ongoing topics in social capital research. We suggest that the state can play a …