Latinx Political Engagement and the Effects of Executive Level Action
Abstract
This project will extend upon previous research stating that policies and governmental action cause the Latinx population to mobilize politically in the United States. It builds off of preestablished theories that mobilization is due to emotional reactions and the sense of linked fate across the Latinx community. I argue that Latinos will mobilize in response to an external threat posed by executive level action on immigration. Additionally, I argue that the Latinx population will act cohesively in terms of political engagement. I expect that the Latinx community will mobilize as a result of their emotional response to threatening forms of executive level action. The population as a whole will mobilize due to a heightened sense of linked fate that emerges as policy becomes racialized; targeting the Latinx community as a whole.
Citation
Torres, Taylor Nicole (2020). Latinx Political Engagement and the Effects of Executive Level Action. Undergraduate Research Scholars Program. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /188453.