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- Title
Black Radical Voices and Policy Effectiveness in the U.S. Congress.
- Authors
Tate, Katherine
- Abstract
This paper argues that African-American House legislators have become less radical, engaging in less forceful ideological battles with the Democratic Party over its policy leadership. They have become simultaneously more prone to support policy leadership from Democratic presidents as well. This argument is based on a study of floor votes by black legislators on budget resolutions in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as an analysis of presidential support and party unity scores from 1977 to 2008 in CQ Almanacs. Since the 1990s, based on a number of factors, black House members are less likely to challenge Democratic presidential and party leadership as radical voices on the political left. This decline in black radicalism, I contend, has implications for the concept of African-American politics as an organized challenge to the racial status of blacks.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICAN American legislators; VOTING research; RADICALISM; POLITICAL leadership; UNITED States legislators; DEMOCRATIC Party (U.S.); TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Forum (2194-6183), 2010, Vol 8, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2194-6183
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2202/1540-8884.1346