Since the civil rights movement, scholars have warned that prominority policies can create a backlash effect in the majority. Some observers fear these dynamics may be at work in Latin America, where after dramatic advances in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights, voters have elected antigay leaders. To investigate, we created the Latin American Rainbow Index—a measure of LGBT rights in the continent by country—and combined it with individual survey responses to test whether granting new rights had any discernible impact on attitudes. We find no evidence of backlash and little evidence of polarization. We also provide a new index of LGBT rights in the continent, which may be used by other scholars to further examine the LGBT movement in Latin America.
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Migration and Democracy: How Remittances Undermine Dictatorships By Abel Escribà-Folch, Covadonga Meseguer and Joseph Wright. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 299 pp., $29.95 cloth - Volume 7 Issue 3
