The Intersection of Redistricting, Race, and Participation
The Intersection of Redistricting, Race, and Participation
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选区重新划分、种族和参与的交叉点
DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00546.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Seth C. McKee
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作者：
Danny Hayes;Seth C. McKee
根据最近的工作，国会选区的划分可以显著减少美国众议院选举中的政治参与。但这类研究未能解释哪些公民的投票率最容易受到重新划分选区的混乱影响，以及这些研究结果是否适用于各种政治背景。在这一新生literatureandworkonblackpoliticalparticipation，weshowthatredistricting’snegativeeffectsonparticipation—measured的基础上，美国众议院选举中的选民人数通常在非裔美国人中最多，但当黑人选民被重新吸引到黑人众议员所在的国会选区时，他们可以被动员起来。我们的发现基于五个州从1992年到2006年的11次选区划分后选举的数据，既扩大了之前工作的经验范围，也表明重新划分选区在影响黑人参与国会竞选方面发挥了以前隐藏的作用。
The drawing of congressional district lines can significantly reduce political participation in U.S. House elections, according to recent work. But such studies have failed to explain which citizens’ voting rates are most susceptible to the dislocating effects of redistricting and whether the findings are generalizable to a variety of political contexts. Building on this nascent literatureandworkonblackpoliticalparticipation,weshowthatredistricting’snegativeeffectsonparticipation—measured by voter roll-off in U.S. House elections—are generally strongest among African Americans, but that black voters can be mobilized when they are redrawn into a black representative’s congressional district. Our findings, based on data from 11 postredistricting elections in five states from 1992 through 2006, both expand the empirical scope of previous work and suggest that redistricting plays a previously hidden role in affecting black participation in congressional contests.