High rejection, low selection: How ‘punitive parties’ shape ethnic minority representation
dc.contributor.author | English, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-28T15:41:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-12-08 | |
dc.description.abstract | Evidence suggests that as public opinion toward immigration becomes more negative, so the descriptive representation of ethnic minority groups is increasingly restricted. Recently, some initial research into the causal mechanism hinted that this effect is driven by patterns of candidacy. This suggests that political parties are creating an ‘ethnic penalty’ of their own in the selection stage. This paper investigates the relationship between patterns of candidacy, party strategy, and public opinion in Great Britain from 1997 to 2019, and proposes that ‘punitive parties’ are strongly responsible for shaping the representational outcomes of minority groups. I find support for earlier suggestions that parties are increasingly likely to place ethnic minority candidates away from ‘winnable’ contests as anti-immigrant hostility rises. These findings are important for our conceptions of ethnic penalties, of party behaviour in selection processes, and for the study and cause of improving political representation. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 8 December 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1354068820973851 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/123397 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications / Political Organizations and Parties Section | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
dc.title | High rejection, low selection: How ‘punitive parties’ shape ethnic minority representation | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-28T15:41:43Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1354-0688 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Party Politics | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-10-23 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-10-23 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-10-28T14:36:15Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-01-15T15:53:17Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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