Descriptive Representation, Legislative Leadership, and Direct Democracy: Latino Influence on English Only Laws in the States, 1984–2002
Descriptive Representation, Legislative Leadership, and Direct Democracy: Latino Influence on English Only Laws in the States, 1984–2002
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描述性代表、立法领导和直接民主：1984-2002 年拉丁裔对美国纯英语法律的影响
DOI：
10.1177/153244000500500301
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Robert R. Preuhs
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作者：
Robert R. Preuhs
少数民族、种族和民族描述性代表如何在多数派代议制机构中发挥政策影响？非代表性的多数主义机构，如公民倡议，如何影响这种影响的程度？我使用了从1984年到2002年国家通过只讲英语的法律的事件历史分析来检验一个通过拥有国家立法领导职位而施加的少数民族政策影响模型。与以前的研究不同，我发现少数族裔人口的规模和立法机构中描述性代表的水平只对立法政策决策产生间接影响。此外，该倡议的多数派规则削弱了少数群体通过立法领导获得的政策影响力，实际上可能导致政策反弹。
How does minority racial and ethnic descriptive representation exert policy influence in majoritarian representative institutions? And how do nonrepresentative majoritarian institutions, such as the citizen initiative, affect the degree of this influence? I use an event history analysis of state adoption of English Only laws from 1984 to 2002 to test a model of minority policy influence that is exerted through the possession of state legislative leadership positions. Unlike previous studies, I find that the size of the minority population and the level of descriptive representation in the legislature exert only an indirect effect on legislative policy decisions. Furthermore, the majoritarian rules of the initiative undermine the policy influence minorities gain through legislative leadership and can actually lead to a policy backlash.