| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17009 |
| DP17009 Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities | |
| Federico Ricca; Francesco Trebbi | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-02-04 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality in the representation and in voter registration rates of Minority groups are widespread, but stronger when racial or ethnic minorities are electorally pivotal. Underrepresentation is determined by the combination of several endogenous institutional features, starting from systematic disparity in voter registration, strategic selection of electoral rules, city’s form of government, council size, and pay of elected members of the council. We provide causal evidence of the strategic use of local political institutions in reducing electoral representation of minorities based on the U.S. Supreme Court narrow decision of Shelby County v. Holder (2013), which deemed unconstitutional Voting Rights Act (VRA) Section 4(b), removing federal preclearance requirements for a specific subset of U.S. jurisdictions. |
| 主题 | Political Economy |
| 关键词 | Us cities Minority representation Ethnic politics Voting rights act |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17009 |
| 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/545955 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Federico Ricca,Francesco Trebbi. DP17009 Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities. 2022. |
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