Race, Region, and Representative Bureaucracy
Race, Region, and Representative Bureaucracy
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种族、地区和代表官僚机构
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2009
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Sean Nicholson
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Jason A. Grissom;Jill Nicholson‐Crotty;Sean Nicholson
研究代议制官僚体制的学者长期以来一直对公共机构中的被动代表权与追求旨在造福少数群体的具体政策之间的联系感兴趣。该领域的研究表明，这些组织的结构特征、外部政治环境以及个别官僚的看法都有助于促进这种关系。然而，迄今为止的工作尚未充分研究地区对代表性行为的影响，考虑到它在更广泛的种族和政治文献中受到的重视，这一点令人惊讶。根据该文献，本研究认为，对于黑人官僚来说，居住地区是积极代表性的重要调节因素，因为它有助于确定种族问题的显着性以及对种族群体利益的认同程度。它在 3,000 多所公立学校的全国代表性样本中检验了与这一普遍论点相关的假设。结果表明，相对于其他地区，黑人教师为南方的黑人学生带来了更大的好处。补充分析还证实了这样的理论假设：与非南方黑人官僚相比，种族对于南方黑人官僚来说是一个更突出的问题。
Scholars of representative bureaucracy have long been interested in the linkage between passive representation in public agencies and the pursuit of specific policies designed to benefit minority groups. Research in this area suggests that the structural characteristics of those organizations, the external political environment, and the perceptions of individual bureaucrats each help to facilitate that relationship. Work to date has not, however, sufficiently investigated the impact of region on representation behavior, which is surprising given the emphasis that it receives in the broader literature on race and politics. Drawing on that literature, this study argues that, for black bureaucrats, region of residence is an important moderator of active representation because it helps to determine the salience of race as an issue and the degree of identification with racial group interests. It tests hypotheses related to that general argument in a nationally representative sample of more than 3,000 public schools. The results suggest that black teachers produce greater benefits for black students in the South, relative to other regions. A supplementary analysis also confirms the theoretical supposition that race is a more salient issue for Southern black bureaucrats, when compared with their non-Southern counterparts.