Representing the people: Latin American councilors and their pathway to power and political representation in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Cordero, Guillermo
• dc.contributor.author Triviño Salazar, Juan Carlos
• dc.contributor.author Escobar Villegas, Maria Soledad
• dc.contributor.author Pérez-Nievas, Santiago
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-16T10:39:00Z
• dc.date.available 2021-11-16T10:39:00Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract Latin Americans are one of the most relevant migrant minorities in Spain. In this article, we analyze their political representation at the local level by describing how councilors of Latin American councilors perceive three stages on their “pathway to power”: the selection method most frequently used by them to become electoral candidates, their ranking as candidates in the Spanish closed and blocked lists system, and their view of political representation once in office. The article contributes to politics in recent immigration countries by implementing a mixed method strategy with survey data and in-depth interviews. The results show how candidates of Latin American origin are included in electoral lists following more participative ways of internal selection than their native-born counterparts, who are more frequently appointed by a party leader. Despite this, those who eventually get elected perceive that they have been ranked in “unsafe positions” of the electoral lists, and therefore with no guarantee of being appointed. Interestingly, once in office, councilors of Latin Americans perceive that they represent immigrants to a lesser degree, compared with their native-born counterparts.
• dc.description.sponsorship This article uses data from the APREPINM Project that received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in the framework of the Call of the National Research Program Oriented to Societal Challenges (reference CSO-2016-79540-R). We would like to thank all members and collaborators of this project for their assistance with the data collection. The article and its open access publication is also based upon work funded by COST Action 16111 EthmigSurveyData (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA16111/), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union; the University of Oxford; the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid.
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• dc.identifier.citation Cordero G, Triviño-Salazar JC, Escobar S, Pérez-Nievas S. Representing the people: Latin American councilors and their pathway to power and political representation in Spain. American Behavioral Scientist. 2021;65(9):1251-64. DOI: 10.1177/0002764221996747
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764221996747
• dc.identifier.issn 0002-7642
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48985
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof American Behavioral Scientist. 2021;65(9):1251-64
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-79540-R
• dc.rights © 2021 SAGE Publications. This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) and permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Immigration
• dc.subject.keyword Representation
• dc.subject.keyword Councilors
• dc.subject.keyword Candidate selection
• dc.subject.keyword Spain
• dc.title Representing the people: Latin American councilors and their pathway to power and political representation in Spain
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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