Efrén O. Pérez

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    How the questions we ask can influence our judgments of people’s political knowledge

How the questions we ask can influence our judgments of people’s political knowledge

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Recent assessments have found that racial and ethnic minorities have less political knowledge compared to Whites. But could this be due to the way that questions are asked rather than a true knowledge gap? Efrén Pérez tests this theory by providing a richer set of political questions to Whites and Latinos, which include Latino-themed questions. He finds that when […]

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    Politicians’ trash-talk about immigration means that Latinos become less politically trusting and more ethnocentric.

Politicians’ trash-talk about immigration means that Latinos become less politically trusting and more ethnocentric.

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Recent months have dramatically illustrated how negative rhetoric over immigration is a staple of US politics. But when politicians decry immigration, how does this affect groups which have a large number of migrants, such as Latinos? In new research which uses a national survey of Latinos, Efrén O. Pérez finds that such criticisms mean that Latinos think of themselves […]

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