Class versus Identity: Candidates' Race and the Inequality–Redistribution Nexus

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Quarterly Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2020-07-05 DOI:10.1561/100.00018138

Konstantinos Matakos, Dimitrios Xefteris

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Despite what the theory predicts, supply of redistributive policies does not always respond to rising inequality. We argue that redistribution reacts to changes in inequality, as long as the economy is not overshadowed by non-economic issues during the elections. To this end we construct a unique data set â€” where we estimate the race of candidates competing in all elections for U.S. state legislatures since 1980 â€” and show that the share of racially differentiated electoral contests has a disentangling effect on the inequalityâ€“redistribution link: when there are few (many) racially differentiated electoral contests, redistribution is (not) found to be sensitive to changes in inequality.

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阶级与身份：候选人的种族与不平等——再分配关系

不管该理论如何预测，再分配政策的供给并不总是对日益加剧的不平等做出反应。我们认为，只要经济在选举期间不被非经济问题所掩盖，再分配就会对不平等的变化做出反应。为此，我们构建了一个独特的数据集——我们估计了自1980年以来参加所有美国州议会选举的候选人的种族——并表明种族分化的选举竞争的份额对不平等-重新分配的联系具有解耦作用:当种族分化的选举竞争很少(很多)时，重新分配被发现对不平等的变化敏感。

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Quarterly Journal of Political Science POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.50

自引率

5.90%

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期刊介绍： In the last half-century, social scientists have engaged in a methodologically focused and substantively far-reaching mission to make the study of politics scientific. The mutually reinforcing components in this pursuit are the development of positive theories and the testing of their empirical implications. Although this paradigm has been associated with many advances in the understanding of politics, no leading journal of political science is dedicated primarily to the publication of positive political science.