Does Racial Redistricting Cause Conservative Policy Outcomes? Policy Preferences of Southern Representatives in the 1980s and 1990s

摘要: This research note uses a median legislator model to assess the claim that racial redistricting leads conservative policy outcomes. I examine preferences of southern representatives U.S. House in late 1980s and early 1990s. Surprisingly, fraction who were liberal, is, left median, increased after redistricting. To explain this empirical pattern, develop simple formal redistricting's electoral effects. In model, state increases number members state's delegation thereby moving national outcomes left.