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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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Title Replication Data for: Not All Black Lives Matter: Officer-Involved Deaths and the Role of Victim Characteristics in Shaping Political Interest and Voter Turnou
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VGSVXZ
 
Creator Burch, Traci
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Burch, Traci