Power and Discontent

Retrospective Voting in American National Elections.

Candidate choice survey experiments in the form of conjoint or vignette experiments have become a standard part of the political science toolkit for understanding the effects of candidate characteristics on vote choice. We collect 67 such studies from all over the world and reanalyze them using a standardized approach. We find that the average effect of being a woman (relative to a man) is a gain of approximately 2 percentage points. We find some evidence of heterogeneity across contexts, candidates, and respondents. The difference is somewhat larger for white (versus black) candidates, and among survey respondents who are women (versus men) or, in the U.S. context, ∗Replication files are available in the JOP Data Archive on Dataverse (http://thedata.harvard.edu/ dvn/dv/jop). †Susanne Schwarz is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Alexander Coppock is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520. We would like to thank William Hunt for his research assistance, as well as Dawn Teele and Amanda Clayton for their support and comments. We also thank our anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback. Previous versions of this manuscript were presented at the MPSA Annual Conference in 2018 as well as the Yale University Gender in the Social Sciences Workshop. Lastly, this project would not have been possible without the many researchers who generously shared their data with us.

What Have We Learned About Gender From Candidate Choice Experiments? A Meta-analysis of 67 Factorial Survey Experiments

My interest in reviewing this book on the British National Party (BNP) comes from a longstanding interest in that organization as well as extremist politics in Europe. The author has much to say on...

New British Fascism: Rise of the British National Party

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UK’s foremost scholars of race and ethnicity on data relating to a wide range of sectors of society, including employment, health, education, criminal justice, housing and representation in the arts and media.

Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK : State of the Nation

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/82843014/final_version_for_pure.pdf

Ethnic minority voters in the UK 2015 general election: a breakthrough for the Conservative party?

This article investigates whether ethnic minority individuals are more likely to vote when they can vote for a candidate who shares their ethnic background. It uses individual-level data from the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study and finds that Pakistani individuals were more likely to vote when they had the opportunity to vote for a Pakistani candidate from the Labour party, and that this effect is due to people in their social network attempting to convince them how to vote. The same is true of Muslim voters and Muslim candidates. I interpret these results as evidence that biraderi is being used to mobilise these voters along ethnic lines. Muslim candidates from the Labour party are associated with lower turnout among Sikhs. However, there were no candidate mobilisation effects among Indians, black Caribbeans or black Africans, or for Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates.

Do Ethnic Minority Candidates Mobilise Ethnic Minority Voters? Evidence from the 2010 UK General Election

Previous studies have found that ethnic minorities in Britain have similar levels of partisan attachment as white UK respondents. However, we find that this hides substantial ethnic differences in ...

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The puzzle of high political partisanship among ethnic minority young people in Great Britain

This paper uses the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study to look at the political attitudes of Muslims in Britain. It tests the relationship between political alienation and political participation on the one hand, and Islamophobia and disapproval of British military involvement in Afghanistan on the other. The principal findings are that perceptions of Islamophobia are linked to greater political alienation, to a greater likelihood of non-electoral participation and to a lower likelihood of voting among Muslims. Likewise, disapproval of the war in Afghanistan is associated with greater political alienation and a greater likelihood of some types of non-electoral participation. There is strong evidence that British Muslims are more likely to interpret discrimination they experience as motivated by their religion and that they perceive more prejudice at the group level. These findings have two theoretical implications. First, they support the theory that non-electoral participation is motivated by di...

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Nicole Martin

Papers

Ethnic minority voters in the UK 2015 general election: a breakthrough for the Conservative party?

Do Ethnic Minority Candidates Mobilise Ethnic Minority Voters? Evidence from the 2010 UK General Election

The puzzle of high political partisanship among ethnic minority young people in Great Britain

Are British Muslims alienated from mainstream politics by Islamophobia and British foreign policy

Left Out of the Left Behind: Ethnic Minority Support for Brexit