The Political Consequences of Social Status: Understanding Caste Discrimination in Senegal

• In Event: Identity Politics in Contemporary Africa

Brief Overview

Using evidence from a survey experiment in Senegal with 2,000 respondents, this paper argues that status hierarchies, such as caste, shape individual experiences of political empowerment and participation in civic initiatives.

Authors

• Leonardo R. Arriola, University of California-Berkeley

• Dominika Anna Koter, Colgate University

• Martha Wilfahrt, University of California-Berkeley