When Exclusion Mobilizes: Institutional Design, Collective Action, and Political Participation

• In Event: Race, Public Opinion, and Political Behavior

Brief Overview

Theories predict inclusive institutions mobilize voting, while exclusion or coercion demobilizes. Studying Indigenous-state relations I show both can mobilize but into different arenas depending on how institutional design channels collective action.

Author

• Sonja Castañeda Dower, University of Chicago