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  • The spread and consolidation of democratic regimes in Latin America over the past decades combined with the availability of new national and cross-national data sets (such as the CSES) makes it possible to study the causes of political participation in new settings where there is sufficient institutional variation to test the effect of political institutions and policies on political participation. This paper explores the empirical relationship between social and economic policies and political participation in Latin America, with a special focus on the case of Mexico. In particular, it examines the impact that neoliberal economic policies have on the political participation of the poor. New data from Mexico and other Latin American countries shows that patterns of political participation increasingly mirror those in the United States, where citizens that have more politically relevant resources (income, education, skills) participate more frequently than citizens who have fewer of these resources. The paper evaluates two competing hypotheses that might account for this pattern: 1) the poor participate less than the rich because they have fewer resources and are less engaged in politics; 2) the poor participate less than the rich because state policies and features of the political process create greater obstacles and fewer incentives for the poor to participate than for the rich. Evidence from Mexico supports the second explanation, suggesting that standard explanations of political activism need to be revised to better account for the effect of the state on political participation. (xsd:string)
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