Irreplaceable Legislators? Rethinking Minority Representatives in the New Century

Juenke, Eric Gonzalez; Preuhs, Robert R.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00584.x

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“…50 Similarly, Solomos and Back and Garbaye 39 Cutler 2002. 40 Juenke and Preuhs 2012;McDermott 1998;Sigelman et al 1995. 41 Buttice and Milazzo 2011.…”

Section: Group-specific Issuesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

Fisher¹,

Heath²,

Sanders³

et al. 2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. Ethnic minority voter responses to candidate ethnicity differed by ethnic group. There were no significant effects for non-Muslim Indian and black voters, while Pakistani candidates benefited from an 8-point average electoral bonus from Pakistani voters.Ethnic minorities are consistently under-represented in all democracies, 1 perhaps in part because majority voters discriminate against minority candidates. 2 Conversely, some research shows that visible minorities are more likely to vote for members of their own ethnic or racial group in the United States 3 and in proportional representation systems that allow preference voting. 4 While there is also evidence that candidate ethnicity affects voting in British elections, with one exception 5 this evidence has thus far been based on aggregate data or qualitative reports. There are also some interesting questions about the effects of candidate ethnicity that arise from the British context that can only now be addressed with high-quality individual-level survey data from the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study. This article considers whether white British voters are more reluctant to vote for non-white candidates, and whether ethnic minority voters are more inclined to support non-white candidates, perhaps especially those from the same ethnic group.White British people perceive different minority groups differently, and Muslims receive among the most hostile reactions. 6 The terrorist attacks of

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“…50 Similarly, Solomos and Back and Garbaye 39 Cutler 2002. 40 Juenke and Preuhs 2012;McDermott 1998;Sigelman et al 1995. 41 Buttice and Milazzo 2011.…”

Section: Group-specific Issuesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

Fisher¹,

Heath²,

Sanders³

et al. 2014

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

104

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“…Existing research on legislator responsiveness has mostly examined the connection between legislators and black constituents, although emerging research has found that increasing Latino populations has had an influence on the legislative process, at both the state and federal level (Casellas, 2007;Juenke and Pruehs, 2012;Rouse, 2013). There has been scant research on the legislative representation of Asian populations, and we are aware of only one study of legislative responsiveness that includes Asians and Latinos (Wong, Lajevardi and Nicholson, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

It’s All about Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents

Gell-Redman

Visalvanich

Crabtree

et al. 2018

Political Research Quarterly

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“…[16] is one of the first texts of using data driven methods in social sciences, and takes a very critical stance. 2 The most recent articles containing W-NOMINATE as content of regression models are [17][18][19]. model to the data, RDTA goes the same way backwards: its starting point is located within the dataset.…”

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Shaking the trees: Abilities and Capabilities of Regression and Decision Trees for Political Science

Waldhauser

Hochreiter

2017

ITM Web Conf.

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Abstract. When committing to quantitative political science, a researcher has a wealth of methods to choose from. In this paper we compare the established method of analyzing roll call data using W-NOMINATE scores to a data-driven supervised machine learning method: Regression and Decision Trees (RDTs). To do this, we defined two scenarios, one pertaining to an analytical goal, the other being aimed at predicting unknown voting behavior. The suitability of both methods is measured in the dimensions of consistency, tolerance towards misspecification, prediction quality and overall variability. We find that RDTs are at least as suitable as the established method, at lower computational expense and are more forgiving with respect to misspecification.

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Irreplaceable Legislators? Rethinking Minority Representatives in the New Century

Cited by 55 publications

References 34 publications

Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

It’s All about Race: How State Legislators Respond to Immigrant Constituents

Shaking the trees: Abilities and Capabilities of Regression and Decision Trees for Political Science

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