6 May
2006
6 May
'06
8:28 a.m.
On Sat, 6 May 2006, Clayton Nall wrote:
"How Poverty Racializes Competition for City
Council Seats"
Abstract
A growing body of literature has focused on the institutional and
electoral factors that lead to improved representation of minorities
i'd change 'improved' to 'increased'. even if it really is
'right', its
better that you take a dispassionate scientific stance.
on city councils. These studies, however, often
employ OLS
regression, a methodology that can result in out-of-bounds predictions
i'd change 'out of bounds' to 'impossible'
for council membership. We employ a statistical model
that produces
sensible results, in part by accounting for the zero-sum nature of
descriptive representation on city councils. Applying this model to a
recent study which argues that turnout increases representation for
minority groups (Hajnal and Trounstine 2005) we find little connection
between higher levels of voter turnout and greater descriptive
representation of minority groups. We find, instead, that poverty
provides an explanation, with higher numbers of black poor,
especially, leading to higher black and white representation at the
expense of Latinos.
a weird result. so to increase representation, it would be good to take
money away from blacks? even weird if you argue that more black poor
means that they get politically mobilizied since its not normally the poor
that is mobilized.
We conclude by arguing that the demographic features
that activate
racial politics deserve greater attention in studies of city council
representation.
this sentence is summarizing your paper, not focusing on your results.
remember that no one cares about your paper or you(!), they only care
about your results. so delete or just argue it (these results suggest
that scholars focus...)
Gary
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