The Intersection of Racial and Partisan Discrimination: Evidence from a Correspondence Study of Four-Year Colleges
The Intersection of Racial and Partisan Discrimination: Evidence from a Correspondence Study of Four-Year Colleges
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种族和党派歧视的交叉点：来自四年制大学函授研究的证据
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Richard M. Shafranek
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作者：
James N. Druckman;Richard M. Shafranek
社会决策往往充满偏见，可能导致对某些群体的歧视。少数民族经常发现自己是这种歧视的受害者。最近的研究也揭示了党派偏见，比如一个政党的成员不公平地偏袒他们的同伴或歧视另一个政党的成员。在这篇文章中，我们使用电子邮件通信研究来探讨种族和党派歧视对高等教育的影响。我们没有发现种族或政治偏见的直接证据；然而，我们确实发现，以任何方式提及政治的非裔美国人得到的回应要少得多。这与种族威胁理论是一致的：多数群体的成员反对少数群体，因为少数群体可能威胁到他们的政治、经济或社会地位。
Social decisions are often imbued with biases that can lead to discrimination against certain groups of people. Racial minorities frequently find themselves on the receiving end of such discrimination. Recent work also reveals partisan bias such that members of one political party unfairly favor their copartisans or discriminate against members of the other party. In this article, we use an e-mail correspondence study to explore the impact of racial and partisan discrimination in higher education. We find no direct evidence of a racial or political bias; however, we do find that African Americans who reference politics in any way receive substantially fewer responses. This coheres with the theory of racial threat: members of a majority group are averse to minorities who might threaten their political, economic, or social status.