RAPID: Collaborative Research: Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Survey (CMPS)

前重刑犯在他们居住的社区被剥夺选举权的更广泛的政治后果是什么？居住在不能投票的个人附近会如何影响合法获得选举权的个人？政治效能感和参与感？这一快速调查通过在协作性多种族选举后调查中添加特定问题并分析结果来调查这些问题和相关的潜在机制。目前的研究表明，与因重罪而被剥夺公民权的个人生活在一起的合法拥有公民权的个人，通过社交网络效应和政治效能较低的感觉，不太可能参与政治活动，也不太可能投票。这一命题以及政治竞选活动在竞争激烈的选举环境中可能会努力抵消这些倾向的可能性也得到了调查。研究考虑了社会网络如何影响政治参与和投票行为，以及社区成员和朋友的政治参与如何影响政治效能感和参政倾向。这一快速项目的目标是测试与前重刑犯被剥夺公民权的社区一级后果有关的几个关键理论机制。研究人员将调查问题放在合作的多种族选举后调查(与加州大学洛杉矶分校的拉丁裔决策调查项目合作)上，并随后对收集的调查数据进行统计分析，调查关键的因果机制，包括：社会网络和政治效能感如何与政治参与和公民参与有关，以及竞选活动可能在多大程度上能够抵消这些影响。虽然大多数问题都是观察性的，但调查中也嵌入了专门设计的实验处理方法，将测试选举竞争力和生活在许多个人无法对政治效能感和参政倾向进行投票的社区的因果影响。

What are the broader political consequences of former felon disenfranchisement in the communities where they reside? How does living near individuals who cannot vote affect legally enfranchised individuals? feelings of political efficacy and engagement? This RAPID investigates these questions, and associated underlying mechanisms, by adding specific questions in a Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey and analyzing the results. Current research proposes that legally enfranchised individuals who live in communities with individuals who are disenfranchised as a result of felony convictions are less likely to engage in politics and less likely to vote?through a combination of social network effects and feelings of lower political efficacy. This proposition is investigated as is the possibility that political campaigns might work to counteract these tendencies in competitive election settings. The research considers how social networks affect political participation and voting behavior and how the participation of community members and friends in politics affects feelings of political efficacy and inclinations to participate in politics. The goal of this RAPID project is to test several key theoretical mechanisms related to the community-level consequences of former felon disenfranchisement. Placing survey questions on the Collaborative Multi-Racial Post-Election Survey (fielded in cooperation with the Latino Decisions survey project at UCLA) and subsequent statistical analysis of the collected survey data, researchers investigate key causal mechanisms including: how social networks and feelings of political efficacy relate to political participation and civic engagement, and the extent to which campaigns might be able to counteract these effects. While most of the questions are observational, there are also specifically designed experimental treatments embedded in the survey, which will test the causal effects of electoral competitiveness and living in communities where many individuals cannot vote on feelings of political efficacy and inclinations to participate in politics.