Presentation Title
An Experimental Test of the Effects of Descriptive Representation on Attitudes about Local Government
Major
Political Science
Anticipated Graduation Year
2023
Access Type
Open Access
Abstract
We leverage the diversity of the Cook County Board of Commissioners to test for the effects of descriptive representation among respondents to the 2023 Cook County Community Survey. Our results are null in the full sample but when we find some significant results in our sybgroup analysis among women and Black respondents.
Faculty Mentors & Instructors
David Doherty, Professor, Political Science; Dana Garbarski, Professor, Sociology
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An Experimental Test of the Effects of Descriptive Representation on Attitudes about Local Government
We leverage the diversity of the Cook County Board of Commissioners to test for the effects of descriptive representation among respondents to the 2023 Cook County Community Survey. Our results are null in the full sample but when we find some significant results in our sybgroup analysis among women and Black respondents.
Comments
Conducted by the Cook County Community Survey at Loyola University Chicago. You can learn more about this project at http://cccs.sites.luc.edu/