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Black Faces in the Mirror : African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress /

Here, Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take up the question of representation from both sides of the constituent-representative relationshi...

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Autor principal: Tate, Katherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Figures and Tables --  |t Preface and Acknowledgments --  |t I . Introduction --  |t Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Representation --  |t II. Black Members of Congress --  |t Chapter 2. Black Members of Congress --  |t Chapter 3. The Elections of Blacks to Congress --  |t III. Representing Black Interests --  |t Chapter 4. Legislative Styles and Voting Records --  |t Chapter 5. Symbols and Substance --  |t IV. The View from Black Constituents --  |t Chapter 6. Blacks' Evaluations of House Members: Does Race Matter? --  |t Chapter 7. Descriptive Representation and Black Political Empowerment --  |t Chapter 8. Descriptive Representation and Trust in Government --  |t V. Conclusion --  |t Chapter 9. The Future of Black Faces in the U.S. Congress --  |t Appendix A. The 1996 National Black Election Study --  |t Appendix B. List of Black Members of the U.S. Congress --  |t Notes --  |t References --  |t Index 
520 |a Here, Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take up the question of representation from both sides of the constituent-representative relationship. The first half of the book examines whether black members of the U.S. House legislate and represent their constituents differently than white members do. Representation is broadly conceptualized to include not only legislators' roll call voting behavior and bill sponsorship, but also the symbolic acts in which they engage. The second half looks at the issue of representation from the perspective of ordinary African Americans based on a landmark national survey. Tate's findings are mixed. But, in the main, legislators' race does shape how they represent their constituents and how constituents evaluate them. African Americans view black representatives more positively than they do white representatives, even those who belong to their own political party. Black legislators, however, are just as likely as white representatives to sponsor and gain passage of bills in the House. Tate also concludes that black House members are more liberal as a group than are their black constituents, but that there is considerable divergence in the quality and type of representation they provide. The findings reported here will generate controversy in the fields of politics, law, and race, particularly as debate commences over renewing the Voting Rights Act, which is set to expire in 2007. 
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