When Poor Students Attend Rich Schools
Do Affluent Social Environments Increase or Decrease Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6320863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tali Mendelberg (0000-0002-4494-7541), Vittorio Mérola (0000-0002-2099-2372), Tanika Raychaudhuri (0000-0002-1927-3768), Adam Thal (0000-0001-5004-5950) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 807-823 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592720000699 |
| OpenAlex | W3027182140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 58 |
College is a key pathway to political participation, and lower-income individuals especially stand to benefit from it given their lower political participation. However, rising inequality makes college disproportionately more accessible to high-income students. One consequence of inequality is a prevalence of predominantly affluent campuses. Colleges are thus not insulated from the growing concentration of affluence in American social spaces. We ask how affluent campus spaces affect college’s ability to equalize political participation. Predominantly affluent campuses may create participatory norms that especially elevate low-income students’ participation. Alternatively, they may create affluence-centered social norms that marginalize these students, depressing their participation. A third possibility is equal effects, leaving the initial gap unchanged. Using a large panel survey (201,011 students), controls on many characteristics, and tests for selection bias, we find that predominantly affluent campuses increase political participation to a similar extent for all income groups, thus leaving the gap unchanged. We test psychological, academic, social, political, financial, and institutional mechanisms for the effects. The results carry implications for the self-reinforcing link between inequality and civic institutions
Affect (linguistics · Citizen journalism · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Inequality · Low income · Political science · Politics · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Test (biology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics
The Electoral Class Gap
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The Other Divide
Inclusive education and institutionalized political participation
Research Trends on Political Participation of School Aged Children and Adolescents
How Colleges Can Increase Civic Engagement
Education and Political Participation
Educating for Democracy? Going to College Increases Political Participation
Does Civic Education in Secondary School have an Impact on Political Interest of Grade 8 Students? Evidence from Neps
What matters in college?
Taming the River
Paying for the Party
Paying the Price
Representing the Advantaged
The Unheavenly Chorus
White-Collar Government
Unequal Childhoods
First-Generation College Students
Mobility Report Cards
How college affects students
Exploring Social Norms as a Group-Level Phenomenon
Distinction
Social Class as Culture
Arresting Citizenship
Feeling at Home in College
Culture Shock Revisited
It's all relative
First-Generation College Students
Social stigma and self-esteem
Voice and Equality
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Cultural Capital and School Success
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
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The Missing Link
Voice in the Classroom
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The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship
Political Knowledge, Political Engagement, and Civic Education
College Socialization and the Economic Views of Affluent Americans
Political Participation and Neighborhood Social Context Revisited
Civic Engagement and Education
Political Participation and the Neighborhood Social Context
Inequality and the Dynamics of Public Opinion
The Policy Consequences of Class Bias in State Electorates
The First Seven Years of the Political Life Cycle
The Effects of Social Class Identification on Participatory Orientations Towards Government
Unseen disadvantage
Middle class and marginal? Socioeconomic status, stigma, and self-regulation at an elite university
Degrees of Inequality
The Interactive Relationship Between Class Identity and the College Experience
Is Voting Contagious? Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Lessons of Welfare
Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |