Close to Home: Place-Based Mobilization in Racialized Contexts

Nuamah, Sally A.; Ogorzalek, Thomas K.

doi:10.1017/s0003055421000307

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“…Localities are also where patterns in the social structure of minority groups, such as growing class segregation or atrophying institutional networks, are most evident. Several studies have demonstrated that careful examination of group politics in local geographic contexts can clarify how, when, and why linked fate rises or fades (e.g., Cohen and Dawson 1993; Gay 2004; Nuamah and Ogorzalek 2021). Scaling down the level of analysis also can help broaden the scope of evidence and the choice of methods.…”

Section: Evidence Methods and Racial And Ethnic Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

Rogers¹,

Kim²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Linked fate, the concept introduced by Dawson almost three decades ago, reoriented the study of racism and political behavior in the United States. The scholarship traditionally had focused on the racial psychology of whites and how racism seeps into their political views and actions. Dawson proposed the Black utility heuristic theory and linked fate, its associated measure, to investigate the political behavior of Blacks, the minority group most harmed by racism. Since then, linked fate has become a ubiquitous variable of interest in research on minority group politics. Yet the research program around linked fate is due for some extension. Most studies gloss over the fact that the Black utility heuristic theory is historically and socially conditional. We call for bringing elite-level agency and group-level social practices back into the literature to clarify the macro- and meso-level conditions under which a group’s racial status translates into linked fate at the individual level. Greater inquiry into these dynamics is not only warranted but also has broad implications for the research on racial and ethnic politics.

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Section: Evidence Methods and Racial And Ethnic Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

Rogers¹,

Kim²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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“…A recent explosion of datasets in the social sciences has led to unprecedented, large-scale study of U.S. politics, elections, and policy-making at the national [5][6][7][8] and state levels 9,10 . Meanwhile, most contemporary studies of local policy-making rely primarily on case studies or small sets of individual places 11,12 , lab experiments 13 , or have required extensive (and expensive) manual data collection [14][15][16][17] .…”

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LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States

Barari

Simko

2023

Sci Data

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Despite the fundamental importance of American local governments for service provision in areas like education and public health, local policy-making remains difficult and expensive to study at scale due to a lack of centralized data. This article introduces LocalView, the largest existing dataset of real-time local government public meetings–the central policy-making process in local government. In sum, the dataset currently covers 139,616 videos and their corresponding textual and audio transcripts of local government meetings publicly uploaded to YouTube–the world’s largest public video-sharing website–from 1,012 places and 2,861 distinct governments across the United States between 2006–2022. The data are processed, downloaded, cleaned, and publicly disseminated (at localview.net) for analysis across places and over time. We validate this dataset using a variety of methods and demonstrate how it can be used to map local governments’ attention to policy areas of interest. Finally, we discuss how LocalView may be used by journalists, academics, and other users for understanding how local communities deliberate crucial policy questions on topics including climate change, public health, and immigration.

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“…In their theory of place-based mobilization, Nuamah and Ogorzalek (2021) describe how citizens respond to geographically concentrated policy change, where mobilization and engagement are based on community context. Three key characteristics of geographically concentrated policy effects are: (1) they occur in some geographical areas of a city or state but not others;…”

Section: Place-based Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence

Morris

Shoub

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Recently, we have witnessed the politicizing effects of police killings in the United States. This project asks how such killings might (de)mobilize voters at the local level. We draw on multiple theoretical approaches to develop a theory of community contact with the police. We argue that when a highly visible event tied to government actions occurs—like a police killing—it can spur turnout. This is especially true where public narratives tie such events to government and structural causes. By comparing neighborhoods near a killing before and after election day, we estimate the causal effect on turnout. We find a mobilizing effect. These effects are larger when they “trend” on Google, occur in Black communities, or if the victim is Black. Proximity to a killing also increases support for abolishing the police. We conclude that police violence increases electoral participation in communities where narratives about racially unjust policing resonate most.

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Close to Home: Place-Based Mobilization in Racialized Contexts

Cited by 25 publications

References 52 publications

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States

Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence

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