Thursday, July 18, 2013

How Race Influences Citizen Contact With Officeholders

How Race Influences Citizen Contact With Officerholders | Demos:

  • According to some surveys, whites are twice as likely as citizens of other races to communicate with elected representatives. 
    • The racial identities of elected officials matter to citizens, my field experiments suggest. When thousands of residents of multi-member state legislative districts were invited to communicate with their legislators, blacks were much more willing – in fact, twice as willing – to communicate with black representatives, while white constituents were twice as willing to communicate with white legislators. Constituents of both races were more reluctant to send messages to legislators not of their own racial background.

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