POLS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Racial Democracy, Coloureds, The Takeaway
5 Dec 2018
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National myths of mestizaje and racial democracy. No main ethnic parties or voting along ethnic/racial lines. There is a substantial gap between the population and elected representatives in latin. Racial disparities in political representation persist in democratic regimes even in the absence of politicized racial or ethnic cleavages (based on experimental work) Different paths through which elite power may persist under democratic institutions (conjecture) Non white representatives tend to make policy that help non white individuals in their constituents than white representatives. Measures with more categories have more intercoder reliability problems because there"s more options to choose from. The challenge of measuring race (validity problems) Alter vs self: of other-classified as white, about 83% self identify as white. How do we separate the effects of politicians" race and class. Survey experiment: sample video of different candidates. Class and race didn"t affect how they saw them. So maybe not much discrimination among voters.
