Seats That May Not Matter: Testing for Racial Polarization in U.S. City Councils

Autor:	Rory Allan Austin
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	African american Sociology and Political Science Voting media_common.quotation_subject Polarization (politics) Legislature Sociology Public administration media_common
Zdroj:	Legislative Studies Quarterly. 27:481
ISSN:	0362-9805
DOI:	10.2307/3598574
Popis:	Critics of the Voting Rights Act claim that electoral structures used by city councils lead to racially polarized legislatures in which African American members are consistently outvoted by white majorities. Using council votes from six cities, this study shows that the critics' claim is exaggerated. In only one city were African American council members generally less likely to be on the winning side of votes because of their race. Polarization is more of a concern for particular issues: members with large black constituencies were less likely to be on the winning side of votes on housing or police affairs in four cities.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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