Racial Minorities’ Trust in Government and Government Decisionmakers

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ID10762871
AutoresJeffrey W Koch (0000-0001-5900-1495, SUNY Geneseo, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume100
Fascículo1
Páginas19-37
Data de publicação2019-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-4941 • E-ISSN: 1540-6237
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ssqu.12548
OpenAlexW2901171286
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas29

Objective Compare the impact of being a racial minority for influencing political trust as measured by the standard, NES‐developed measures with its impact on assessments of the capacity of decisionmakers to make racially unbiased spending and hiring decisions. Additionally, to examine the political trust of American Indians, an understudied racial minority. Methods Bivariate and multivariate analysis of 2004 and 2008 National Annenberg Election Study survey data. Results Self‐designation as a racial minority exercises small, inconsistent effects on the standard measures of political trust and external efficacy. When citizens are asked whether Caucasian government officials make decisions on spending and hiring to advantage whites to the disadvantage of blacks and Hispanics, racial minorities state that they expect racial bias. American Indians reveal levels of political trust similar to those held by other racial minorities. Conclusion An increasingly multiracial society will experience considerable tensions as minorities distrust government decisionmakers of a different race. These tensions will continue to be exploited by ambitious political elites

Disadvantage · Distrust · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics) · Minority group · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Social and Intergroup Psychology