Representation: preferences, priorities, and tradeoffs

Representation;race;procedural justice;process preferences

Hayes, Matthew

关键词: Representation;    race;    procedural justice;    process preferences;   

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

This dissertation investigates whether citizens are willing to make tradeoffsbetween descriptive and substantive representation. Answering this question is critical to efforts to maximize satisfaction with government for bothminorities and members of the majority. This study makes four main contributions. First, it investigates how citizens, not scholars, evaluate descriptiveand substantive representation. Although the stockpile of studies on the twotypes of representation has grown dramatically, the citizen’s perspective hasbeen noticeably absent. Second, in using an experiment, the study estimatesnot only the independent effects of the two aspects of representation, butalso the interactive effects, which in turn speaks to how willing citizens areto make tradeoffs. Third, the study facilitates deriving implications for maximizing satisfaction with governmental decisions across majority and minoritygroups. Finally, the study investigates the role of innumeracy in shaping people’s preferences for representation. I find that maximizing satisfaction forboth minorities and the majority is indeed possible. Proportional or higherdescriptive representation compensates for unfavorable substantive representation for minorities, and members of the majority are willing to accept suchrepresentational arrangements.