Congressional committee demographics and racially salient representation

IF 1.8 3区 社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Politics Groups and Identities Pub Date : 2021-10-20 DOI:10.1080/21565503.2021.1992286
Franchesca Nestor
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ABSTRACT The positive impact of descriptive representation upon congressional committees’ work is well-documented in the literature: more racially diverse chamber membership and leadership increases racially salient committee activity. However, the possible descriptive effects of racially diverse congressional committees remain unexamined. A new dataset records the numbers of Black and Latinx members on all standing committees in the House from the 80th through 114th Congresses. Committees with higher numbers of Black members are more likely to hold racially salient hearings and hold a greater volume of such hearings. The effect remains even after controlling for committee jurisdiction, the race of the committee chair, and House diversity. Though Latinx membership on committees does not have a statistically significant effect upon racially salient hearings by those committees, the new data indicates the comparatively smaller numbers of Latinx members on committees as a likely explanation. The results for Black committee members indicate that representation of racially salient concerns requires not only a racially diverse legislative body but racially diverse committees. A thorough exploration of descriptive representation in legislative action must include consideration of committee diversity as an important piece of the puzzle.
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国会委员会人口统计和种族突出代表性
摘要:描述性代表制对国会委员会工作的积极影响在文献中得到了充分的证明:更多的种族多样化的商会成员和领导增加了种族突出的委员会活动。然而,种族多样化的国会委员会可能产生的描述性影响仍未得到检验。一项新的数据集记录了从第80届到第114届国会众议院所有常设委员会中黑人和拉丁裔成员的数量。黑人成员较多的委员会更有可能举行突出种族问题的听证会,而且此类听证会的数量也更多。即使在控制了委员会的管辖权、委员会主席的种族和众议院的多样性之后,这种效果仍然存在。虽然委员会的拉丁裔成员在统计上对这些委员会的种族突出听证会没有显著影响,但新的数据表明,委员会的拉丁裔成员人数相对较少可能是一个解释。黑人委员会成员的结果表明,要代表突出的种族问题,不仅需要一个种族多元化的立法机构,还需要一个种族多元化的委员会。对立法行动中描述性代表制的彻底探索必须包括考虑委员会的多样性,这是一个重要的难题。
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