Browsing by Author "Gay, Claudine"
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Americans' Belief in Linked Fate: Does the Measure Capture the Concept?
Gay, Claudine; Hochschild, Jennifer L.; White, Ariel (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)For decades, scholars have attributed Black Americans' unified political and policy views, despite growing internal class and status differences, to a strong perception of linked fate. In recent years, the concept has been ... -
Appreciating Housing: The Role of Housing in Politics
Mabud, Rakeen (2016-05-03)While the economic implications of housing have been examined extensively, surprisingly limited attention has been devoted to how the housing market impacts politics. My dissertation is a three paper compilation that ... -
Essays on Social Contexts and Individual Politics: The Political Influence of Religious Institutions and Ethno-Racial Neighborhood Contexts
Woolfalk, Katherine Miya Miya (2013-10-08)Citizens regularly encounter social contexts that have important consequences for political behavior. This dissertation evaluates the political influence of two such environments: religious institutions and ethno-racial ... -
Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-Pressures and Black Partisanship
Gay, Claudine (Springer Verlag, 2014)Black Americans are a core Democratic constituency, despite holding views on social issues that put them in conflict with the party. Conventional wisdom attributes this partisan commitment to the salience of race and ... -
Legislating Without Constraints: The Effect of Minority Districting on Legislators' Responsiveness to Constituency Preferences
Gay, Claudine (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Numerous critics have charged that the practice of minority districting, by weakening the electoral incentives central to representative behavior, leads legislators to be less responsive to constituency opinion. Using data ... -
Moving to Opportunity: the Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment
Gay, Claudine (Sage Publications, 2012)In 1994, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program (MTO), a lottery that offered poor families vouchers to move out of public housing ... -
The Participatory Turn: Participatory Budgeting Comes to America
Gilman, Hollie Russon (2013-08-12)Participatory Budgeting (PB) has expanded to over 1,500 municipalities worldwide since its inception in Porto Alege, Brazil in 1989 by the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party). While PB has been adopted ... -
Seeing Difference: The Effect of Economic Disparity on Black Attitudes Toward Latinos
Gay, Claudine (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)Rapid growth in the size of the Latino population has increased the ethnic diversity of urban neighborhoods, transforming the residential experiences of many black Americans. The competition for scarce resources is considered ... -
Voter Behavior in the Wake of Punitive Policies
White, Ariel Rebecca (2016-05-04)Millions of people in the US have direct experience with the machinery of immigration enforcement or criminal courts, and millions more have seen family members, friends, or neighbors face these experiences. What do these ...