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- Title
Descriptive Representation as a Mechanism to Mitigate Policy Backlash: Latino Incorporation and Welfare Policy in the American States.
- Authors
Preuhs, Robert R.
- Abstract
While the election of racial/ethnic minority lawmakers has diversified American legislative institutions, scholars continue to find evidence of racial backlash in public policy decisions. This seems to undermine the Madisonian conception of the ability of minority interests to offset majoritarian resentment through representation and raises the question, Can minority group representatives influence policy decisions in majoritarian institutions? Using evidence from the American states, this study shows that the fastest-growing ethnic minority group, Latinos, do benefit from descriptive representation, as increases in Latino representation and legislative incorporation offset the negative effects of Latino population size on social welfare policy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; REPRESENTATIVE government; MINORITY politicians; HISPANIC Americans; POLITICAL participation; POLICY sciences
- Publication
Political Research Quarterly, 2007, Vol 60, Issue 2, p277
- ISSN
1065-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1065912907301981