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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14318
	DP14318 Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: the Great Migration and Civil Rights
	Alvaro Calderon; Vasiliki Fouka; Marco Tabellini
发表日期	2020-02-01
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Between 1940 and 1970, during the second Great Migration, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States. The Great Migration coincided with the rise of the civil rights movement, whose success marked a key turning point in the history of race relations in the US. In this paper, we show that these two events are causally linked. Predicting Black in-migration with a version of the shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration increased support for the Democratic Party and encouraged pro-civil rights activism, among both Black and (some) white voters. We also show that Black in-migration induced northern Congress members to more actively promote civil rights legislation. However, these average effects mask a steep rise in polarization. While the 1940s saw the replacement of moderate Republicans with increasingly liberal Democrats, the 1950s were characterized by a right-wing shift within the GOP. Overall, our findings suggest that, under certain conditions, cross-race coalitions can emerge, but also that higher support for racial equality may coincide with higher political polarization.
主题	Economic History ; Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Race Diversity Civil rights Great migration
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14318-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543266
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alvaro Calderon,Vasiliki Fouka,Marco Tabellini. DP14318 Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: the Great Migration and Civil Rights. 2020.