Representation and integration: essays on the impact of local minority political representation on immigrants' political engagement

移民的政治融入和他们与当地机构的接触是他们融入东道国社会的关键方面之一。随着英国议会中少数族裔的描述性代表在两党中稳步增加，我建议调查选区描述性政治代表与少数族裔政治参与之间的关系。具体地说，我建议通过使用关于议员种族的公开数据以及关于政治兴趣、对政治参与的态度和政党忠诚度的数据集来调查选区层面的代表性是否导致这些变量的变化。为了做到这一点，我建议使用序数和多项逻辑回归模型以及多水平模型，这也将有助于确定这些变量如何随着时间和不同群体内的变化而变化。这篇博士论文旨在利用“了解社会”数据及其IEMB推动，调查英国少数民族在选区层面的代表性与居民少数族裔表达的政治利益和政治派别之间的联系。在英国，少数族裔政治代表对政治利益、党派和投票行为的影响以前从未被调查过。本研究旨在探讨以下问题：1.当地少数族裔的政治代表性是否影响移民和少数族裔群体(及其子女)的政治利益？当地少数民族政治代表权的影响是否因代而异？2.当地少数民族政治代表权是否改变了移民对政治参与的态度？S的态度会不会随着年龄的变化而变化？对政治的知识/兴趣会影响人们的态度吗？政党背景是否与移民的政治参与态度有关？3.当地少数族裔的政治代表性是否影响移民表达的政治忠诚？这种关系在不同世代/年龄之间有何不同？对政治的知识/兴趣会影响政治忠诚吗？所表达的忠诚的力量是否起到了作用？

The political integration of immigrants and their engagement with local institutions is one of the key aspects of their inclusion into a host society. With descriptive representation of ethnic minorities in the UK parliament steadily increasing on both sides of the aisle, I propose investigating the relationship between descriptive political representation at the constituency and the political engagement of ethnic minorities. Concretely, I propose doing this by using publicly available data on MPs' ethnicity and the 'Understanding Society' dataset's variables on political interest, attitudes to political engagement, and party allegiance to investigate whether representation at the constituency level has led to a change in these variables. To do this I propose using ordinal and multinomial logistic regression models and multilevel modelling that would also help determine how these variables have changed over time and within different groups.This doctoral dissertation aims to investigate the links between UK ethnic minority representation at the constituency level, and the expressed political interest and political affiliation among resident minorities using the 'Understanding society' data and its IEMB boost. The impact of minority political representation on political interest, affiliation, and voting behaviour in the United Kingdom hasn't been investigated before. This dissertation could thus make a valuable contribution to the literature on how minority political representation impacts minority citizens in the United Kingdom.The proposed research project aims to investigate the following questions:1. Does local minority representation affect political interest among immigrant and minority groups (and their children)? Does the effect of local minority political representation differ across generations?2. Does local minority political representation change immigrants' attitude to political engagement? Do attitude s vary across generations / age? Does knowledge / interest in politics affect people's attitudes? Does party affiliation have a relationship with immigrant' attitude towards political engagement?3. Does local minority political representation affect immigrants' expressed political allegiance? How does this relationship vary across generations / age? Does knowledge / interest in politics affect political allegiance? Does the strength of the expressed allegiance play a role?