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Voting minorities, electoral structu...

Benham, Liza Abram.

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Voting minorities, electoral structure and policy responsiveness.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Voting minorities, electoral structure and policy responsiveness./
作者:	Benham, Liza Abram.
面頁冊數:	316 p.
附註:	Adviser: Michael McDonald.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
標題:	Black Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3220352
ISBN:	9780542715723

Voting minorities, electoral structure and policy responsiveness.
Benham, Liza Abram.

Voting minorities, electoral structure and policy responsiveness. - 316 p.

Adviser: Michael McDonald.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2006.

Democrats---from the Greek Aristotle to founding father James Madison, from Southern slavery apologist John C. Calhoun to former NAACP attorney Lani Guinier---often have worried about the lot of a voting minority in a system of majority rule. Further, even as Americans have sought to strengthen their influence over electoral outcomes and over their representatives---direct election of senators and recall referenda are but two examples---questions have persisted about which voters exert influence and how they are able to do so. Largely due to interpretations of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, one attempt to increase the influence of a minority in the United States is by transforming it into the numeric majority in voting districts---or at least substantially increasing the minority group proportion---through the use of single-member districting. The resulting majority-minority and minority influence districts have dramatically raised the level of descriptive representation, but questions remain about substantive representation. This dissertation hypothesizes that the multiplicative effect of minority group representation and single-member districting is positively associated with greater policy responsiveness. Logistic regression is used to analyze at what level a voting minority, measured as percentage African American city councilors, can influence policy, measured as (1) a reduced probability that refuse collection will be privatized and (2) an increased probability of affirmative action in municipal government contracting, commonly referred to as a set-aside program for minority business. The choice of privatization and affirmative action as policy output and of local government as the level of analysis is a departure conceptually from earlier research, much of which has focused on state or national representation and policy and on spending for welfare and other social services. Further, the introduction of a political dimension in explaining African American business success contributes to the truncated middleman theory advanced by John Sibley Butler.

ISBN: 9780542715723Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

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