Church Attendance, Social Capital, and Black Voting Participation
Church Attendance, Social Capital, and Black Voting Participation
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00632.x
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发表时间：
2009-09-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Orey, Byron D'Andra
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作者：
Liu, Baodong;Austin, Sharon D. Wright;Orey, Byron D'Andra
目标我们测试了政治参与的传统研究，这些研究表明提高教育和收入将有助于缩小投票中的种族差距。方法我们采用贝叶斯模型来测试教育和收入对黑人和白人种族群体的影响。我们还将黑人投票参与的解释与社会资本联系起来。结果我们发现，纽带和桥梁社会资本以及人力资本对于解释白人投票参与都很重要，但只有通过教堂出席率衡量的纽带社会资本才能解释非裔美国人的投票参与。结论我们的结论是，必须在种族背景下考虑社会资本理论的效用和人力资本理论的持续意义。此外，我们的研究结果对黑人教会在增加社会资本和政治参与方面的持续作用提供了重要启示。
ObjectivesWe test the traditional studies of political participation that suggest enhanced education and income will help reduce the racial gap in voting.MethodsWe adopt a Bayesian model to test the impact of education and income on both black and white racial groups. We also link the explanation of black voting participation to social capital.ResultsWe find that bonding and bridging social capital as well as human capital are all important in explaining white voting participation, but only bonding social capital, measured by church attendance, explained African-American voting participation.ConclusionsWe conclude that the utility of social capital theory and continuing significance of human capital theory must be considered in a racial context. In addition, our findings offer important implications about the continuing role of black churches for increasing social capital and political participation.