TY - JOUR
T1 - Close to Home
T2 - Place-Based Mobilization in Racialized Contexts
AU - Nuamah, Sally A.
AU - Ogorzalek, Thomas Kenneth
N1 - Funding Information:
This collaboration was supported in part by a fellowship at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - How do racially concentrated policy changes translate to political action? Using official election returns, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, and original data on the unprecedented mass closure of schools in segregated, predominantly Black neighborhoods across Chicago, we demonstrate that those living in the communities affected (1) increase their attendance at political meetings; (2) mobilize in support of ballot measures to avert future closings; and (3) increase their participation in the subsequent local election, while decreasing their support for the political official responsible for the policy on the ballot-at a higher rate than every other group. These findings shed light on how groups that previously participated at the lowest rates go on to participate at the highest rates on community issues that matter to them. We develop a theory of place-based mobilization to explain the role of the community in acting as a site of coidentification and political action for marginalized groups.
AB - How do racially concentrated policy changes translate to political action? Using official election returns, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, and original data on the unprecedented mass closure of schools in segregated, predominantly Black neighborhoods across Chicago, we demonstrate that those living in the communities affected (1) increase their attendance at political meetings; (2) mobilize in support of ballot measures to avert future closings; and (3) increase their participation in the subsequent local election, while decreasing their support for the political official responsible for the policy on the ballot-at a higher rate than every other group. These findings shed light on how groups that previously participated at the lowest rates go on to participate at the highest rates on community issues that matter to them. We develop a theory of place-based mobilization to explain the role of the community in acting as a site of coidentification and political action for marginalized groups.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0003055421000307
DO - 10.1017/S0003055421000307
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105029169
VL - 115
SP - 757
EP - 774
JO - American Political Science Review
JF - American Political Science Review
SN - 0003-0554
IS - 3
ER -