Replication Data for: Not All Black Lives Matter: Officer-Involved Deaths and the Role of Victim Characteristics in Shaping Political Interest and Voter Turnou
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Replication Data for: Not All Black Lives Matter: Officer-Involved Deaths and the Role of Victim Characteristics in Shaping Political Interest and Voter Turnou
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VGSVXZ
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Burch, Traci
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Harvard Dataverse
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This article presents evidence that exposure to officer-involved deaths of low-threat black victims increases political interest and voter turnout among black CMPS respondents under age 40. The analysis takes advantage of variation in the timing of exposure to officer-involved deaths, relative to survey participation, to randomly assign survey respondents to treatment and control conditions. The analysis considers socioeconomic status, police contact, police performance, and other factors that might confound this relationship. The results reveal that victim race, threat level, and visibility affect the likelihood that an officer-involved death will mobilize political interest. Political interest and voter turnout are higher among the treatment group, who were exposed to high-visibility/low-threat Black victims only before they participated in the CMPS, than in the control group, who were exposed to such victims only after they took the survey. Exposing young black respondents to all victims without accounting for threat, visibility, or race does not affect political interest or voter turnout, suggesting the importance of these factors for mobilization. The findings clarify role that Black Lives Matter activists, journalists, and watchdog groups can play in countering the police actions that shape the visibility and framing of black victims of police violence. |
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Social Sciences
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Burch, Traci
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