The Political Origins of Racial Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Maltby (0000-0001-9733-854X, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 535-548 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912917704518 |
| OpenAlex | W2606777938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 42 |
Policy feedback theory argues that public policies shape mass political behavior by teaching citizens about their relationship to government. I reevaluate this argument by examining how criminal justice policy shapes the political orientations and participation of blacks and whites. I argue that, because these policies send different messages to blacks than to whites about the treatment they can expect from government, these groups have opposite reactions to criminal justice enforcement. Using data from a 2014 national survey and information on local criminal justice outcomes, I find that racially skewed criminal justice enforcement is associated with negative political orientations and lower rates of political participation for highly educated blacks. I also find that whites respond positively to similar criminal justice outcomes when they reside in areas with large black populations. The results show that unequal policy outcomes lead to political inequality
Argument (complex analysis · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Enforcement · Government (linguistics · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Public policy · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law
Policy Feedback
The Boundaries of Competition
The Ripple Effect
Demographic Context, Mass Deportation, and Latino Linked Fate
No Justice, No Peace
Supreme Prejudice
Policy Feedback Effects on Mass Publics
The unqualified voter
Changing Attitudes and Provoking Action
Socializing Policy Feedback
Citizens’ experiences of a policy-ridden environment
The Intergenerational Transmission of Policy Feedback in the United States
Integrating identity in policy design theory
Does Administrative Burden Affect Welfare Recipients’ Institutional Trust and Political Participation? Evidence from a Recall Experiment
Reform and Community Level Participation
Contact and Context
Policy Effects, Partisanship, and Elections
The Color of Discretion
Learning to avoid
Policy Feedback in a Racialized Polity
Feeling Politics
How racialized policy contact shapes the social constructions of policy targets
The Participatory Implications of Racialized Policy Feedback
Crossed wires
Administrative Errors and Race
A Drop in the Ocean
Qualitative Methods and Interpersonal Citizen-State Encounters
Does policy threat mobilise? 287(g) and Latino voter registration in North Carolina and Florida
Contested Killings
Family Matters? Voting Behavior in Households with Criminal Justice Contact
Trading Democracy for Justice
Police–Community Relations in a Majority-Black City
From protest to politics
How Policies Make Citizens
Policy Makes Mass Politics
Class Awareness in the United States
Justice in America
Why Trust Matters
Arresting Citizenship
Perceptions of Racial Profiling
Behind the Curve
Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course
Immigration Enforcement and the Redistribution of Political Trust
Back to the Black Belt
Attitudinal Policy Feedback and Public Opinion
Racial Attitudes in America
Racial Threat, Residential Segregation, and the Policy Attitudes of Anglos
Extending the Effects of the Carceral State
When Threat Mobilizes
Fear and Loathing in California
The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship
Spirals of Trust? The Effect of Descriptive Representation on the Relationship between Citizens and Their Government
Perceiving pervasive discrimination among African Americans
Seeing Black
Not yet human
Consequences of Family Member Incarceration
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback
Democratic Contraction? Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States
Just Des(s)erts? The Racial Polarization of Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
Racial Threat and Partisan Identification
Putting Race in Context
Social Construction of Target Populations
Lessons of Welfare
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment
The Race of a Criminal Record
Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime
The emerging black middle class
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |