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100 _aHoang, Bai Linh
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245 _aRace and Legislative Responsiveness in City Council Meetings
260 _bSage
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300 _aVol 55, Issue 6, 2019 : (1579-1611 p.)
520 _aLegislative responsiveness under description representation, even at the local level, is often conceptualized as how elites act on or comply with the requests or preferences of minority constituents. In this article, I look at and evaluate a neglected but important dimension of responsiveness. Specifically, I investigate the impact of race on the verbal responses that legislators provide to constituents who speak at local public meetings. Through an analysis of data collected from city council minutes and direct observations of council meetings, I find a lack of evidence for the independent effect of race on legislative responsiveness in these meetings. However, I do find that the impact of race is conditional on the statements expressed by constituents.
650 _adescriptive representation
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650 _acity councils
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650 _apolitical participation
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650 _apublic meetings
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650 _arace and urban politics
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_dSage, 2019.
_tUrban affairs review
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1078087418762056
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