Partisanship, structure, and representation: the puzzle of African American education politics

Meier, Kenneth John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6378-0855 and Rutherford, Amanda 2014. Partisanship, structure, and representation: the puzzle of African American education politics. American Political Science Review 108 (2) , pp. 265-280. 10.1017/S0003055414000148

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Abstract

The 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act targeted electoral structures as significant determinants of minority representation. The research regarding electoral structures and representation of constituents, however, has produced conflicting results, and the continued application of some of the provisions set forth in the Voting Rights Act is in doubt. This article addresses the impact of at-large elections on African American representation and reveals a striking and unanticipated finding: African Americans are now overrepresented on school boards that have at-large elections when African Americans are a minority of the population. Using the 1,800 largest school districts in the United States (based on original surveys conducted in 2001, 2004, and 2008), we find that partisanship changes the relationship between electoral structures and race to benefit African American representation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0003-0554
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 11:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/94796

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