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This research note provides a detailed account of the development and implementation of a household survey conducted in 2016 as part of a larger investigation into the lifeways and political subjectivities of Brazil's 'once-rising poor,' the demographic sector comprising poor and working-class people who experienced various forms of socioeconomic mobility in the early twenty-first century. After reflecting on the challenges of maintaining a critical perspective on class labels and relations that were intensely contested at the time, the article introduces the survey sample (n = 1,204), highlighting variables captured. It then establishes the demographic profile, mobility experiences, political values, attitudes, and behaviors of the sample. The portrait that emerges for this sector is one of economic precarity, heterogeneous experiences of socioeconomic mobility (and nonmobility) over the past two decades, and significant alienation from formal politics. Keywords: Brazil; class; mobility; political attitudes; household survey Este artigo oferece um relato detalhado do desenvolvimento e implementacao de uma pesquisa domiciliar realizada em 2016 como parte de uma investigacao mais ampla sobre as formas de vida e subjetividades politicas dos 'outrora pobres' do Brasil, o setor demografico composto por pessoas pobres e da classe trabalhadora expostas a varias formas de mobilidade socioeconomica no inicio do seculo XXI. Apos refletir sobre os desafios de manter uma perspectiva critica sobre os rotulos e relacoes de classe que eram objeto de intensa contestacao na epoca, apresentamos a amostra da pesquisa resultante (n = 1.204), destacando as variaveis capturadas. Em vez de um resumo exaustivo de todas as variaveis medidas, estabelecemos o perfil demografico, experiencias de mobilidade e valores politicos, atitudes e comportamentos de nossa amostra. Como mostramos, o retrato que emerge para este setor e um retrato de precariedade economica, experiencias heterogeneas de mobilidade socioeconomica (e nao-mobilidade) durante as duas ultimas decadas, e alienacao significativa da politica formal. Palavras-chave: Brasil; nova classe media; mobilidade; atitudes politicas; pesquisa domiciliar, How do we investigate the full complexity of experiences of mobility among Latin America's poor and working classes during a period of tumultuous political and economic change? More specifically, how [...]

Despite the integral role of the judiciary to democracy, and the importance of judicial trust for judicial system performance, we know relatively little about the bases of public trust in this institution. How does institutional quality affect judicial trust? We explore this question in the context of Latin America, using a multilevel data set comprising survey data spanning 2001 to 2016 and country-level institutional and economic factors. We find that the effects of institutional quality on judicial trust are highly circumscribed. Factors like rule of law and corruption impact the judicial trust of only the best-educated survey respondents. Among the broader public, however, judicial trust is shaped more strongly by individuals' subjective economic and regime evaluations, as well as one's personal experiences with the judiciary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]