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dc.contributor.authorWhite, Ariel R.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-23T17:16:39Z
dc.date.available2020-11-23T17:16:39Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128563
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents new causal estimates of incarceration's effect on voting, using administrative data on criminal sentencing and voter turnout. I use the random case assignment process of a major county court system as a source of exogenous variation in the sentencing of misdemeanor cases. Focusing on misdemeanor defendants allows for generalization to a large population, as such cases are very common. Among first-time misdemeanor defendants, I find evidence that receiving a short jail sentence decreases voting in the next election by several percentage points. Results differ starkly by race. White defendants show no demobilization, while Black defendants show substantial turnout decreases due to jail time. Evidence from pre-arrest voter histories suggest that this difference could be due to racial differences in exposure to arrest. These results paint a picture of large-scale, racially-disparate voter demobilization in the wake of incarceration.en_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000305541800093Xen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alikeen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceMIT web domainen_US
dc.titleMisdemeanor Disenfranchisement? The Demobilizing Effects of Brief Jail Spells on Potential Votersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationWhite, Ariel. "Misdemeanor Disenfranchisement? The Demobilizing Effects of Brief Jail Spells on Potential Voters." American Political Science Review 113, 2 (February 2019): 311-324 © 2019 American Political Science Associationen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalAmerican Political Science Reviewen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2020-06-15T17:13:41Z
dspace.date.submission2020-06-15T17:13:43Z
mit.journal.volume113en_US
mit.journal.issue2en_US
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICY
mit.metadata.statusComplete


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