Constituency Influence in Minority Legislators’ Substantive Representation from the Perspective of Strategic Behavior

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Ingroup and Outgroup Attitudes

Brief Overview

This study shows how minority legislators maximize their own preferences, different from that of constituents, by taking strategic behaviors; 1) putting different weight between position-taking and credit claiming 2) cosponsoring with white coworkers

Author

• Ji Yeon Hong, University of Iowa