Cleavages, Coalitions, and the Black Candidate: The Los Angeles Mayoralty Elections of 1969 and 1973

Hahn, Harlan; Klingman, David; Pachon, Harry

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“…Bradley won a bare majority (51%) of the less mobilized Mexican-American vote (Hahn, Klingman, and Pachon, 1976). Unlike the highly unified black vote, the Hispanic base for Bradley was apparently divided along class lines; he did much better in low-income Hispanic neighborhoods (Hahn et al, 1976). Overall, however, Hispanics were substantially more likely than white non-Jews to back Bradley and therefore comprised an important part of his electoral base.…”

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“…At the same time, Bradley's popular appeal helped elect Jewish liberal Burt Pines to the office of city attorney, by bringing him votes from the black community. In turn, Pines may have brought Bradley some votes among Jews (Hahn et al, 1976). Within a year of taking office, Bradley had helped elect two black allies to city council seats, each backed by Jewish liberal donors and Bradley's black campaign associates.…”

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Biracial Coalition Politics in Los Angeles

Sonenshein

1986

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In their 1984 bookProtest Is Not EnoughBrowning, Marshall, and Tabb suggest that biracial coalitions are powerful vehicles for achieving minority incorporation in the political life of cities. They argue that black electoral mobilization and subsequent incorporation depend on both the relative size of the black community and white support. Similarly, Hispanic incorporation is a function not only of the percentage of Hispanics in the population but also joint membership with blacks in a liberal coalition (pp. 245–246).Their optimistic view of biracial and multiracial coalitions contrasts strikingly with the more common pessimism about cross-racial politics. Racial polarization in such major cities as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia (as well as in a number of medium and smaller-sized cities) has fed the belief that the black protests and white backlash of the 1960s have doomed biracial politics.Protest Is Not Enoughfocuses on ten small and medium-sized Northern California cities. The largest, San Francisco, is the 16th most populous city in the U.S. But biracial coalition politics has been most advanced in Berkeley, a city of only 103,328 in 1980. Thus the book's argument is vulnerable to the challenge that full-blown biracial politics worked only in a rather small, unusual city and otherwise had a significant impact in cities of only moderate size in the traditionally liberal Bay Area.

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Biracial Coalition Politics in Los Angeles

Sonenshein

1986

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“…Although racial fears had influenced voting in the Los Angeles mayoral election of 1969, when Bradley first ran against Sam Yorty (Kinder and Sears, 1981;Hahn, Klingman and Pachon, 1976), by 1982 he was a well-known and uncontroversial figure whose entire political career bespoke caution and accommodation. In Los Angeles, he had solid support among the white establishment, and there was no serious opposition to him in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.…”

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White Reactions to Black Candidates: When Does Race Matter?

Citrin¹,

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Sears³

1990

Public Opinion Quarterly

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“…Los Angeles is considerably less dense than many other major cities. What further distinguishes Los Angeles city politics from other cities is its historical lack of political machine and partisan politics (Hahn, Klingman and Pachon 1976;Carney 1964). The city is surrounded by a diverse and famously suburban southern California.…”

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Local News Outlets and Political Participation

Filla

Johnson

2010

Urban Affairs Review

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We investigate how access to local government information affects turnout in municipal elections. We hypothesize that the availability of news focused on local public affairs in an individual's municipality affects her political participation. We anticipate that turnout will be depressed by restricted access to local government news. We test this expectation using survey data from the Los Angeles (California) Designated Market Area (DMA) collected by the Public Policy Institute of California, and the availability of weekly and daily newspapers in municipalities surrounding Los Angeles. We find that absent local news, voters are less likely to turnout. We examine reasons for this and discuss future research to investigate the influence of local news on voting.

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Cleavages, Coalitions, and the Black Candidate: The Los Angeles Mayoralty Elections of 1969 and 1973

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Biracial Coalition Politics in Los Angeles

Biracial Coalition Politics in Los Angeles

White Reactions to Black Candidates: When Does Race Matter?

Local News Outlets and Political Participation

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