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The Franchise, Policing, and Race : Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
Facchini, Giovanni - 2020
This paper investigates the relationship between the franchise and law enforcement practices using evidence from the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. We find that, following the VRA, black arrest rates fell in counties that were both covered by the legislation and had a large number of newly...
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The Franchise, Policing, and Race : Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
Facchini, Giovanni; Knight, Brian G.; Testa, Cecilia - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between the franchise and law enforcement practices using evidence from the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. We find that, following the VRA, black arrest rates fell in counties that were both covered by the legislation and had a large number of newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308374
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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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Political demobilization and the welfare state : criminal disenfranchisement in perspective - North Carolina case study
Horn, Daniel - 2014
The issue of felon disenfranchisement has grown considerably over the past two decades. The following thesis places (criminal) disenfranchisement in the US, and those affected, firmly in the sphere of political economic studies. That is, this work takes the issue of felon disenfranchisement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340457
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Racial restrictions on voting : evidence from a new pan-Anglophone dataset, 1730-2000
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2024
A substantial literature studies franchise extension, focusing primarily on class-based – rather than race …-based – voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on …
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Testing for racial prejudice in the Parole Board release process : theory and evidence
Anwar, Shamena; Fang, Hanming - 2012
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Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process : Theory and Evidence
Anwar, Shamena - 2012
maximum sentences and separately by race. If the coefficient estimates on the exposure time term differ by race, then there is …
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Incarceration, earnings, and race
Gordon, Grey; Jones, John Bailey; Neelakantan, Urvi; … - 2021
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Incarceration, Earnings, and Race
Athreya, Kartik; Gordon, Grey; Jones, John Bailey; … - 2022
race, gender, and education. Our hidden Markov model distinguishes between first-time and repeat incarceration, along with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292352
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The effects of male incarceration dynamics on acquired immune deficiency syndrome infection rates among African American women and men
Johnson, Rucker C.; Raphael, Steven - In: The journal of law & economics 52 (2009) 2, pp. 251-293
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