Minority Voices: The Representational Roles of African American and Latino Legislators during State Legislative Deliberations

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dc.contributor.advisorHamm, Keith E.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberJones, Mark P.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMarschall, Melissa J.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberByrd, Alexanderen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMeier, Kennethen_US
dc.creatorMiller, Renitaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-17T00:46:38Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-17T00:46:41Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-09-17T00:46:38Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-09-17T00:46:41Zen_US
dc.date.created2013-05en_US
dc.date.issued2013-09-16en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2013en_US
dc.date.updated2013-09-17T00:46:42Zen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation I systematically examine African-American and Latino legislator behavior in a legislative setting. The project specifically examines whether and how minority legislators represent and influence African American and Latino policy interests during the legislative process. I perform an analysis of minority legislator participation rates on bills and develop an original measure of substantive representation using patterns in legislative speech of state representatives’ language during committee hearings. I build on existing theory in the representation literature and offer new hypotheses for expanding the scope of how substantive representation is defined and investigated, namely through an empirical investigation of the link between deliberation and descriptive representation. Second, I collect an original data set and develop an original measure of substantive representation to test these hypotheses with participation rates and a linguistic frame based content analysis approach of minority and non-minority representatives’ language on bills for racial perspectives during state legislative committee hearings on several policy issue areas including, but not limited to education, healthcare, and immigration. Third, I offer a critical test of hypotheses to test whether African American and Latino representatives’ (1) participate more when the legislation is deemed minority interest in comparison to their non-minority counterparts? (2) their behavior (or deliberation style) is different from non-minority legislators? (3) impact the deliberation style of non-minority legislators? The analysis draws on original data collected through committee hearing tapes and online video archives of Texas committee hearings in multiple policy areas, and the findings indicate that minority legislators do indeed provide a voice for minority constituents, providing more minority interest language on minority interest bills in comparison to their non-minority colleagues, especially when the legislation is threatening to minority populations. These results support the argument that minority legislators do indeed substantively represent minority constituents at levels greater than non-minority representatives during the legislative process.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationMiller, Renita. "Minority Voices: The Representational Roles of African American and Latino Legislators during State Legislative Deliberations." (2013) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/72075">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/72075</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2013-05-333en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/72075en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectSubstantive representationen_US
dc.subjectDescriptive representationen_US
dc.subjectDeliberationen_US
dc.subjectMinoritiesen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Americansen_US
dc.subjectLatinosen_US
dc.subjectState legislatorsen_US
dc.subjectParticipationen_US
dc.subjectCommittee hearingsen_US
dc.subjectState politicsen_US
dc.subjectEducation policyen_US
dc.subjectImmigration policyen_US
dc.subjectPublic policyen_US
dc.subjectState legislaturesen_US
dc.subjectMinority voicesen_US
dc.subjectLegislative studiesen_US
dc.subjectRace and ethnicityen_US
dc.subjectMinority coalitionsen_US
dc.titleMinority Voices: The Representational Roles of African American and Latino Legislators during State Legislative Deliberationsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentPolitical Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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