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Congress in black and white : race and representation in Washington and at home /
"Race matters in Congress. This book argues that although electing black legislators yields meaningful outcomes in the lives of African-American voters in the United States, drawing affirmative action districts does not impact policy outcomes for black constituents"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. African-American legislators, African-American districts, or democrats?
- Summary of book's argument and findings
- The book's roadmap
- 2. A unified theory of African-American representation in Congress
- The unified theory of African-American representation in Congress
- Three competing theories of racial
- Racial trust between Black voters and Black legislators
- Congressional decision making, political parties, and race
- Electoral coalitions, turnout, and substantive representation
- Black faces, white districts : the Supreme court and racial redistricting
- White legislators and Black-influence districts
- Why no one has examined both a Legislator's race and a district's Black population
- 3. The "hollow hope" of civil rights change in the U.S. House
- Perverse effects, beneficial effects, or minimal effects? does racial gerrymandering affect median civil rights policy outcomes in the U.S. House?
- What are black interests on rolls calls?
- How can we determine legislators' preferences on civil rights?
- Has the civil rights policy space in Congress changed over time?
- The relative unimportance of the south for civil rights floor outcomes in the house
- Civil rights ideological shifts in state delegations due to racial redistricting
- Political parties, agenda setting, and civil rights voting records in Congress
- Counterfactual analysis
- Did the creation of Black-majority districts in 1992 give the house to Republicans?
- Summary : Racial redistricting in 1992 and aggregate policy outcomes in the U.S. House
- What about at the District level? does party or race matter more?
- Implications for the future of majority-minority districts
- 4. Location, location, location: delivering constituency service to African-Americans
- Constituency service as substantive representation
- The importance of race : helping constituents in the district
- Talking with congressional staff to assess constituency service to African Americans
- Reaching voters with service : race trumps geography and party
- Randy Forbes : big shoes to fill
- Earl Hilliard : he was elected to represent the people here
- Congressional offices in black neighborhoods?
- 5. Constituency service in the district: connecting black legislators, black staff, and black voters
- African-American staff and substantive Congressional Representation
- White staff and substantive representation via constituency service
- The racial backgrounds of Congressional District staff across the United STates
- Which members of Congress disporportionately hire African-American staff?
- Commonality versus difference : no difference
- Conclusion : race and the quality of constituency service to black constiuents.
- 6. Bringing home the bacon: delivering federal "pork" to African-Americans
- Pork is substantive representation
- Bringing home the bacon to predominately Black counties and historically Black colleges and universities
- Black legislators deliver more projects to African Americans
- The effect of a legislator's race on project allocations
- The effect of party on project allocation to Black constituents
- Racial trust : the interactive effect of district Black population and a legislator's race
- Pork delivery, electoral coalitions, and racial representation
- Conclusion and discussion
- 7. The future of racial redistricting: Black decisive districts
- Race, Legislative representation, and the importance of elections
- The need for Black-decisive districts : policy implications for the future of majority-minority districts and representation
- Criteria for drawing districting plans maximizing Black-decisive districts
- Conclusion and closing thoughts
- Appendix I: Methods used to measure the civil rights issue space
- Appendix 2 : Methods for qualitative research
- Appendix 3 : Data, methods, and models for project allocations to African Americans.