Segregation and Black political efficacy

Segregation and Black Political Efficacy

The impact of segregation on Black political efficacy is theoretically ambiguous. On one hand, increased contact among Blacks in more segregated areas may mean that Blacks are better able to coordinate political behavior. On the other hand, lesser contact with non-Blacks may mean that Blacks have less political influence over voters of other races. As for non-Blacks, inter-group conflict theory...

Political Efficacy and political participation

Black-white residential segregation and physical activity.

This multilevel study explores the potential relationship between Black-White residential segregation and physical activity. It combines data on physical activity from the 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a national telephone survey of adults overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with a measure of racial segregation. Using hierarchical linear ...

Residential Segregation and Black-White Intermarriage

Spatial separation of racial and ethnic groups may reduce the probability that mutually acceptable singles of di¤erent races meet each other in the marriage market, or it may have no e¤ect if market participants segments themselves. I …nd that people in more segregated cities are signi…cantly less likely to end up in a racially mixed marriage. I control for reverse causality and endogenous migr...

How Internal Political Efficacy Translates Political Knowledge Into Political Participation

This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...