A Certain Type of Descriptive Representative? Understanding How the Skin Tone and Gender of Candidates Influences Black Politics
A Certain Type of Descriptive Representative? Understanding How the Skin Tone and Gender of Candidates Influences Black Politics
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某种类型的描述性代表？
作者：
Camille D. Burge;Julian Wamble;Rachel R. Cuomo
尽管社会学家和心理学家一再证明，肤色歧视决定了美国黑人如何评价其种族群体成员，但奇怪且讽刺的是，关于选举政治中肤色歧视的文献仍然缺乏对美国黑人的研究。我们在文章中填补了这一空白，询问黑人候选人的肤色和性别如何以及以何种方式影响黑人的投票意图以及代表性的看法？通过对 1,260 名美国黑人（其中我们分析了 839 名）进行的原始调查实验，改变了政治候选人的性别和肤色，我们发现深色皮肤的候选人比浅色皮肤的候选人更容易获得评价。我们的研究结果推进了对选举政治中肤色歧视的研究，并对大量有关描述性代表性的文献产生了广泛的影响。
Although sociologists and psychologists have repeatedly demonstrated that colorism shapes how Black Americans evaluate members of their racial group, the literature on colorism in electoral politics remains curiously and ironically bereft of studies of Black Americans. We fill this lacuna in our article by asking how and in what ways might the skin tone and gender of Black candidates shape Blacks’ vote intention along with perceptions of representativeness? Using an original survey experiment with 1,260 Black Americans (of which we analyze 839) that varies the gender and skin tone of political candidates, we find that darker-skinned candidates are evaluated more favorably than lighter-skinned candidates. Our results advance the research on colorism in electoral politics and have sweeping implications for the vast body of literature on descriptive representation.