Youth representation in Latin American legislatures: Cross-national party-level evidence from the PELA project

Vicente Faúndez-Caicedo, Sergio Huertas-Hernández, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, School of Government and Public Administration, Univeridad Mayor

Party Politics: The International Journal for the Study of Political Parties and Political Organizations

Published online on May 19, 2026

Abstract

Party Politics, Ahead of Print.
Despite relatively low legal age thresholds for legislative office in Latin America, young people remain markedly underrepresented in national parliaments. Drawing on more than 9,000 individual interviews from the Parliamentary Elites of Latin America (...