The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power: The Interaction of Descriptive Representation, Managerial Networking, and Race

Davis, Belinda Creel; Livermore, Michelle; Lim, Younghee

doi:10.1017/s0022381611000077

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Such scarcity may create especially strong incentives for discrimination. There is also some empirical evidence to support the intuition that discrimination manifests among social service bureaucrats (Davis, Livermore, and Lim 2011;Ernst, Nguyen, and Taylor 2013;Fording, Soss, and Schram 2007;Keiser, Mueser, and Choi 2004;Schram et al 2009). Devolution of welfare policy has yielded significant variation in autonomous welfare offices' sanctions of participants.…”

Section: Racial Bias and Bureaucracymentioning

confidence: 97%

Does Race Affect Access to Government Services? An Experiment Exploring Street‐Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing

Einstein

Glick

2016

American J Political Sci

161

118

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Section: Racial Bias and Bureaucracymentioning

confidence: 97%

Does Race Affect Access to Government Services? An Experiment Exploring Street‐Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing

Einstein

Glick

2016

American J Political Sci

161

118

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“…Symbolic representation may also be a driver of the formation of collaborative partnerships and networks (see Conner 2016; Davis, Livermore, and Lim ). Shared identity in terms of race, ethnicity, or gender between public managers and external stakeholders may thus improve service provision.…”

Section: From Passive To Symbolic Representativenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representative Bureaucracy: A Lever to Enhance Social Equity, Coproduction, and Democracy

Riccucci

Ryzin

2016

Public Administration Review

230

209

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Practitioner Points• Representative bureaucracy can promote diversity within government organizations and, more broadly, social equity throughout the nation.• Bureaucracies that are representative of the people they serve can enhance citizens' trust in government and foster the achievement of democratic goals.• Through its effects on legitimacy and trust, representativeness can influence the extent to which clients and citizens cooperate and comply with government, thus coproducing important policy outcomes.• Increasing the representation of women and people of color in government can promote bureaucratic accountability.

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“…This literature proposes a combination of taste-based and more strategic, or political, mechanisms for this bias. Davis, Livermore, and Lim (2011) finds that where local TANF program managers have closer ties to black political networks in areas with more black political power, black constituents are more likely to be given discretionary access to vocational training programs. Focusing on administration of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, Keiser, Mueser, and Choi (2004) finds that nonwhite recipients' benefits are sanctioned by case workers for violating program rules more than white recipients within each jurisdiction.…”

Section: Existing Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials

2014

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D o street-level bureaucrats discriminate in the services they provide to constituents? We use a field experiment to measure differential information provision about voting by local election administrators in the United States. We contact over 7,000 election officials in 48 states who are responsible for providing information to voters and implementing voter ID laws. We find that officials provide different information to potential voters of different putative ethnicities. Emails sent from Latino aliases are significantly less likely to receive any response from local election officials than non-Latino white aliases and receive responses of lower quality. This raises concerns about the effect of voter ID laws on access to the franchise and about bias in the provision of services by local bureaucrats more generally.

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The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power: The Interaction of Descriptive Representation, Managerial Networking, and Race

Cited by 23 publications

References 42 publications

Does Race Affect Access to Government Services? An Experiment Exploring Street‐Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing

Does Race Affect Access to Government Services? An Experiment Exploring Street‐Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing

Representative Bureaucracy: A Lever to Enhance Social Equity, Coproduction, and Democracy

What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials

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