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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities
Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...
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Minority underrepresentation in U.S. cities
Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258878
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Political Participation and Economic Development. Evidence from the Rise of Participative Political Institutions in the Late Medieval German Lands
Wahl, Fabian - 2018
Participative political institutions in late medieval cities in the German Lands had the potential to impact city size and growth. The study confirms the positive effect on economic outcomes of inclusive political institutions in 282 cities, as found by other studies, but supports a more...
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Political participation and economic development : evidence from the rise of participative political institutions in the late medieval German lands
Wahl, Fabian - In: European review of economic history : EREH 23 (2019) 2, pp. 193-213
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Democracia y gobiernos locales : efectos de la divergencia entre la voluntad popular y la distribución del poder en los gobiernos municipales
Jaramillo Baanante, Miguel; Bardález, Elsa - 2019 - Primera edición
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Education-occupation mismatch and social networks for hispanics in the US : role of citizenship
Mundra, Kusum; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2020
In this paper we examine the education and occupation mismatch for Hispanics in the US using a novel objective … larger social network helps Hispanics in finding jobs that better match with their skill and education levels or whether … living in areas with larger concentration of Hispanics leads to more competition for the same jobs in the labor market. Given …
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Money and politics : financing our elections democratically
Donnelly, David; Fine, Janice; Miller, Ellen S. - 1999
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Felon disenfranchisement and voter turnout
Miles, Thomas J. - In: The journal of legal studies 33 (2004) 1, pp. 85-129
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Men, women, and the ballot : woman suffrage in the United States
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2009
Woman suffrage led to the greatest enfranchisement in the history of the United States. Before World War I, however, suffrage states remained almost exclusively confined to the American West. The reasons for this pioneering role of the West are still unclear. Studying the timing of woman...
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Men, women, and the ballot : gender imbalances and suffrage extensions in US states
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2010
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by force, nor did men grant it under the imminent threat of female unrest. These facts are difficult to reconcile with leading political economy theories of suffrage extensions. In...
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