Why do legislators discriminate against racial minorities? Evidence from a multi-method approach

• In Event: CwC Experiments and Political Elites: Inequality and Bias in Politics

Brief Overview

We extend the existing political discrimination literature by combining an audit study with a secondary field experiment to tease out the underlying cause for racial discrimination. Early results suggest that discrimination is statistical.

Author

• Michelangelo Landgrave, University of California, Riverside