The Effects of Language Minority Provisions of the Voting Rights Act on Political Decision Making: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

• In Event: Institutionalizing Empowerment: Voting Rights, Quotas and Inequalities in Participation

Brief Overview

We use a regression discontinuity approach to examine the causal effect of the language minority provisions of the Voting Rights Act on decisions and abstentions with respect to ballot measures.

Authors

• Jason Coronel, The Ohio State University

• David James Hendry, London School of Economics and Political Science