Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Murakawa, Naomi

doi:10.1515/for-2015-0035

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“…However, spatially proximal police killings do not constitute the same relationship as the "proximal contact" studied by Walker (2014). Studies investigating contextual and neighborhood effects generally suggest that aggressive policing practices demobilize the communities in which they take place (Burch, 2013;Kang & Dawes, 2017;Laniyonu, 2019). 4 Branton, Carey, and Martinez-Ebers (2021) find that people living in zip codes with more police killings have lower political efficacy even when including a broad series of individual and contextual controls.…”

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“…Seemingly unjust and aggressive policing practices, like police violence, may mobilize or demobilize depending on the context Walker, 2014;White, 2019A). However, research studying the neighborhood and contextual effects of policing generally suggest that aggressive and violent policing demobilizes entire communities (Burch, 2013;Kang & Dawes, 2017;Branton et al, 2021; for exceptional cases, see Laniyonu, 2019). Specifically, proximity to police violence is linked to lower trust in government and diminished external political efficacy (Silva et al, 2020;Branton et al, 2021).…”

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“…Synthesizing research designs employed by Burch (2013), White (2019A), and Ang (2020), this paper studies how preelection police killings in California, Florida, and Ohio affected the participation rates of spatially proximal voters in the 2016 general election. It does so by comparing the participation rates of active registered voters living within a mile of a police killing occurring before the 2016 general election to the participation rates of active registered voters living within a mile of a police killing occurring after the 2016 general election using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design.…”

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The Impact of Police Killings on Proximal Voter Turnout

Markarian

2022

American Politics Research

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This paper studies how spatial proximity to pre-election police killings affects voter turnout. I argue that incidents of police violence have neighborhood-level effects. Nearby voters are more likely to learn about proximal killings than those further away. If perceived as unjust, police killings teach political lessons that reduce voters’ trust in government and political efficacy. In turn, this impacts voter turnout. Observing the 2016 presidential election, I test this theory using geolocated voter data and a difference-in-differences design with matched groups. I find that pre-election police killings reduce voter turnout by 3 percentage points in the killings’ one-mile radius. Space and race matter. Police killings reduce Black voter turnout by 5.9 percentage points in the killings’ one-mile radius, but Black voters one to two miles away from the killings are unaffected. However, police killings do not affect White and Latino voter turnout regardless of the distance.

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The Impact of Police Killings on Proximal Voter Turnout

Markarian

2022

American Politics Research

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“…With much of the literature on Black women's behavior situated at the state level, there is an opportunity to build upon this work by studying the leadership of Black women at the local level. For scholars who are interested in the welfare of the Black community, the local landscape provides crucial insights into mayoral fiscal allocations and police powers (Taylor 2016), segregationist zoning and its effects on communities (Trounstine 2018), and Democratic participation (Burch 2013). Understanding local politics and the leaders who shape it is indispensable to the discipline.…”

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Telling the Tale: Black Women Politicians and Their Use of Experiential Rhetoric

Wright

2023

Pol & Gen

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Stereotypical assumptions about minority candidates serving those who identify most closely with their own identity have led to heightened scrutiny of women and Black candidates’ language. Using race-gendered language on the campaign trail can undermine a candidate’s viability, as skepticism of racial and gendered language is rooted in the belief that minority candidates may be “too narrow” in their concerns. Against this backdrop, this article explores the campaign rhetoric of three mayors: Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, and Muriel Bowser of Washington, DC. Analyzing 62 mayoral debates using NVivo, I find that Black women candidates leverage their lived experiences, rooted in their racial and gendered identity, more than their race and gendered counterparts when advocating for their policy preferences. This work produces key insights into identity and campaign rhetoric utilized by Black women politicians.

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“…In other words, this sort of contact comes not from direct, personal experience, nor the experience of a loved one-rather, it is mediated through an individual's relationship with their community. While she does not call it community contact, Burch (2013) questions whether greater levels of surveillance in the form of higher rates of contact with the carceral state (i.e,. higher incarceration and parole rates) relate to differential levels of community political participation.…”

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Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence

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2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Recently, we have witnessed the politicizing effects of police killings in the United States. This project asks how such killings might (de)mobilize voters at the local level. We draw on multiple theoretical approaches to develop a theory of community contact with the police. We argue that when a highly visible event tied to government actions occurs—like a police killing—it can spur turnout. This is especially true where public narratives tie such events to government and structural causes. By comparing neighborhoods near a killing before and after election day, we estimate the causal effect on turnout. We find a mobilizing effect. These effects are larger when they “trend” on Google, occur in Black communities, or if the victim is Black. Proximity to a killing also increases support for abolishing the police. We conclude that police violence increases electoral participation in communities where narratives about racially unjust policing resonate most.

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Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Cited by 17 publications

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The Impact of Police Killings on Proximal Voter Turnout

The Impact of Police Killings on Proximal Voter Turnout

Telling the Tale: Black Women Politicians and Their Use of Experiential Rhetoric

Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence

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