Do Politicians Discriminate Against (Polarized) Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators before the 2020 Election

• In Event: Violence in Communities: Policing, Participation, and Policy

Brief Overview

Sending e-mails as a black/white citizen to state legislators, we asked about the prevalence of deadly police violence against black and white citizens in their district and if blacks were/were not over proportionally killed per encounter.

Authors

• Ekkehard Köhler, University of Siegen

• Marius David May, University of Siegen