Abstract Drawing on semi-structured interviews, participant observations, surveys, and voting records, this mixed-methods study investigates Latinx youths' political socialization and grassroots organizing efforts in a conservative, anti-immigrant regional context. This investigation makes three contributions. First, findings suggest that under hostile political contexts, vertical (adult-to-youth) forms of political socialization may rarely guide Latinx youth in taking political action, and may sometimes even discourage participation. Second, we show that, despite political opposition, youth organizing groups can function as vehicles of horizontal (peer-to-peer) socialization, bolstering members' political engagement and providing them with valuable civic knowledge and skills. Third, youth-led grassroots mobilization efforts can increase young voter turnout, as evidenced by our experimental findings. We argue that grassroots youth organizing groups can empower their members to operate as agents of political socialization among a peer constituency that extends far beyond their friendship networks and schoolmates.

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保守政治背景下拉丁裔青年的政治社会化

摘要 利用半结构化访谈、参与者观察、调查和投票记录，这项混合方法研究调查了拉丁裔青年在保守、反移民的地区背景下的政治社会化和基层组织努力。这项调查有三个贡献。首先，研究结果表明，在敌对的政治背景下，垂直（成人到青年）形式的政治社会化可能很少引导拉丁裔青年采取政治行动，有时甚至可能会阻碍参与。其次，我们表明，尽管存在政治反对，青年组织团体可以作为横向（点对点）社会化的工具，加强成员的政治参与并为他们提供宝贵的公民知识和技能。第三，正如我们的实验结果所证明的那样，由青年领导的基层动员工作可以增加年轻选民的投票率。我们认为，基层青年组织团体可以授权其成员在远远超出他们的友谊网络和同学的同龄选区中作为政治社会化的代理人运作。