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Title: Why Are Blacks the Most Authoritarian Ethnic Group in America?: A Multilevel Analysis

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This paper studies the effects of perceived racism among African Americans onauthoritarianism. We use multilevel modeling with poststratification to estimate these effects from nationally representative surveys and census data. Our approach representsa methodological advance to the extent that previous approaches lacked the statisticalpower to produce reliable estimates for sparsely sampled subsets of data. We findthat, on the aggregate level, the effect of perceptions of black-targeted racism among African Americans on their levels of authoritarianism is positive, significant, and large.In contrast, the effect for Whites is reversed. On the state level, these findings hold for almost 80 percent of the states that are adequately sampled. Previous scholarshiphas done a good job of explaining why Blacks are overwhelmingly Democratic despite their high levels of social conservatism and authoritarianism. The present study, to ourknowledge, provides the first explicit and systematic attempt to explain why Blacks have such high levels of authoritarianism in the first place.

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Authors: Sosnoff, Eric; McMahan, Peter

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Institution: University of Chicago

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Publisher Location: Chicago, IL

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

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