Do Politicians Discriminate against Ethnic Minority Constituents? A Field Experiment on Social Interactions between Citizens and Swedish Local Politicians

• Larsson Taghizadeh, Jonas ^[1] ; Åström, Angelica ^[1] ; Adman, Per ^[1]
  1. [1] Uppsala University

     Uppsala University

     Uppsala domkyrkoförs., Suecia

     
• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 75, Nº 1, 2022, págs. 154-172
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsaa053
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• Resumen

  • In ethnically diverse societies, are citizens treated equally by their political representatives? Several field experiments find that politicians discriminate in their daily communication with voters. However, these studies only focus on the USA and South Africa and may overestimate the degree of discrimination by ignoring sex and socio-economic status. We address these shortcomings by investigating ethnic discrimination in Sweden. In an email experiment, all 812 municipal commissioners were randomly contacted by voters with Arabic- or Swedish-sounding names. Our results do not show any clear signs of discrimination; thus, previous results might not be generalisable to Sweden or similar democracies.

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