Beyond Pan-Ethnicity
Responsiveness of Elected Officials to Asian American Subgroups
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6179847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yat To Yeung (0000-0003-1170-0902, George Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 543-554 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Politics Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-673X • E-ISSN: 1552-3373 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532673x221139758 |
| OpenAlex | W4308998931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
Are American elected officials equally responsive to all Asian subgroups? Asian American is one of the major racial/ethnic groups in the United States and is currently the fastest-growing racial group. However, studies on the representation of Asian Americans are limited. Studies also commonly view Asian Americans as a single, homogenous group and omit the heterogeneity within this unique population. I argue that to understand any racial/ethnic group better, we should look into the ethnic subgroups and examine them as separate populations. I conducted an audit experiment in this study and sent emails to more than 2000 state legislators, manipulating senders' names to represent different Asian subgroups. I find that none of the subgroups received a lower response rate than white constituents, regardless of the officials' racial group and partisan affiliation. However, Korean constituents were less likely to receive a friendly response than white and Vietnamese constituents. The results also show that Latino and Black legislators were less friendly in their emails and less responsive than their Asian and white counterparts. This study sheds light on the heterogeneity of racial/ethnic groups, which scholars have routinely overlooked
Asian americans · Ethnic group · Minority group · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Vietnamese · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
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A Squire Index Update
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Asian American Mobilization
Asian American Candidate Preferences
Understanding Interaction Models
An Empirical Justification for the Use of Racially Distinctive Names to Signal Race in Experiments
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Black Politicians Are More Intrinsically Motivated to Advance Blacks’ Interests
Campaign Contributions Facilitate Access to Congressional Officials
Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators
Candidates or Districts? Reevaluating the Role of Race in Voter Turnout
Do More Professionalized Legislatures Discriminate Less? The Role of Staffers in Constituency Service
What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials
Asian Embeddedness and Political Participation
Who counts as Asian
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |