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Title: Marginal Voters and Their Racial Prejudice

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This paper studies whether marginal voters are more or less prejudiced in democratic elections in comparison with regular voters. We focus on low-level statewide elections in which marginal voters are plausibly ill-informed in order to mitigate concerns that the estimates reflect unobserved candidate-specific attributes that correlate with race. Both descriptive evidence and falsification tests reaffirm the research design. We find considerable evidence that marginal voters engage in more racial discrimination than regular voters. There is no evidence of bias against female candidates.

Url: http://home.cerge-ei.cz/mittag/papers/minority_disadvantage.pdf

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Authors: Barth, Suzanne K; Mittag, Nikolas; Park, Kyung H

Publisher: Wellesley College

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Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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