Doctoral Dissertation Research: Being Black Isn't Enough - How Variation in Black Political Leadership affects Black Mass Political Behavior

博士论文研究：作为黑人还不够——黑人政治领导力的变化如何影响黑人群众的政治行为

• 批准号: 1647365
• 负责人: Antoine Banks
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-15 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647365&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Being; Black

General AbstractThis project studies how the ways black politicians show their commitment to political problems in the black community. In particular, it seeks to establish whether the choices in politicians' presentation of self can lead to changes in the behaviors and attitudes of black voters. Despite the well-established findings about representation and black political leadership, little has been done to investigate how black voters' perceptions of black politicians may change depending on the types of political messages adopted by these politicians. This study utilizes original experimental data to identify why some black politicians gain more support than others from black voters. The research is of particular importance because it allows us to assess the political responses of black voters as some black politicians become more professionalized and employ a greater variety of means to appeal to voters. Technical AbstractThis project's aim is to bridge the study of black political leadership with that of descriptive representation to identify the causal mechanisms that produce the particularly high levels of in-group candidate support generally observed among black Americans. It seeks to show when and how varying content of the messages of black political leaders might lead to variation in candidate support among black voters. This study employs two original experimental tests that enhance our understanding of how perceptions of a candidate's connection and commitment to political inclusion of the black community might lead to changes in mass political behavior among black voters. The experimental research design allows the PI to isolate the causal mechanism at work, thereby providing greater explanatory power about how differences within black political leadership and displays of community commitment can change the political behavior and attitudes of black voters. Furthermore, it will also allow greater insight into how black representatives are evaluated by black constituents.

本项目研究黑人政治家如何在黑人社区表现出他们对政治问题的承诺。 特别是，它试图建立在政治家的自我介绍的选择是否会导致黑人选民的行为和态度的变化。尽管关于代表性和黑人政治领导力的研究结果已经确立，但很少有人调查黑人选民对黑人政治家的看法如何根据这些政治家所采用的政治信息的类型而改变。这项研究利用原始的实验数据，以确定为什么一些黑人政治家获得更多的支持比其他黑人选民。这项研究特别重要，因为它使我们能够评估黑人选民的政治反应，因为一些黑人政治家变得更加专业化，并采用更多样化的手段来吸引选民。 技术摘要本项目的目的是弥合研究的黑人政治领导的描述性代表，以确定因果机制，产生特别高的水平，在组内的候选人的支持，通常观察到美国黑人。它试图表明黑人政治领袖的信息内容的变化何时以及如何可能导致黑人选民对候选人支持的变化。本研究采用了两个原始的实验测试，增强了我们的理解如何候选人的连接和承诺的黑人社区的政治包容性的看法可能会导致黑人选民中的群众政治行为的变化。实验研究设计允许PI隔离工作中的因果机制，从而提供更大的解释力，黑人政治领导和社区承诺的表现如何改变黑人选民的政治行为和态度。 此外，它还将使人们更深入地了解黑人选民如何评价黑人代表。