48. Amy Erica Smith on Politics and Religion in Latin America.

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My guest today is Amy Erica Smith. Amy is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor at Iowa State University in the US. In the 2020-22 academic years, she is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. The key focus of her research is, in her own words, how ordinary people understand and engage in politics. Her key topical foci are public opinion and religion and politics and her primary regional expertise is Latin America, in particular Brazil. In 2019 she published Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God with Cambridge University Press, which is also the key focus of this conversation.
If you want to know more about Amy Smith, you can check out her website at www.amyericasmith.org and you can also follow her on Twitter at @AmyEricaSmith.