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Responding to Failure: Essays on Racial Ingroup Bias in Political Judgments

Crawford, Nyron N.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406136758

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Political Science.
In this dissertation, I use data collected from three experiments to examine the dynamics of racial ingroup bias. In particular, I look at the extent to which same-race politicians are either sanctioned or protected when they are linked to negative political events. I examine how different scenarios, or failure events, could have an impact on ingroup members’ judgments of a same-race elected official. In the first empirical chapter, I use an experiment to test the effects of an incumbent mayor’s race and the condition of his city on judgments of accountability for the incumbent (and candidates in an upcoming election). The second empirical chapter examines this bias in the context of an alleged scandal (i.e., sexual infidelity, financial impropriety), and considers whether socially reprehensible transgressions can be politically damaging, insofar as they preclude the accused elected official from the benefits of their group’s protection. Finally, the third empirical chapter experimentally explores the limits of black racial group loyalty as it relates to marginalized subgroups and subtypes of African Americans. Specifically, it investigates whether non-protypical black officials (i.e., female, homosexual, Republican) of the ingroup benefit similarly from ingroup bias when they are linked to a negative political event. In general, I argue that racial minorities (i.e., blacks), disadvantaged by unequal representation, engage in group-serving biases that tend to protect same-race politicians who are beset by political or moral dilemmas.
Ismail White, Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair)
Kathleen McGraw, Ph.D. (Committee Co-Chair)
Wendy Smooth, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Thomas Nelson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
199 p.
Political Science
Racial Politics; Scandal; Ingroup Bias; Mayors; Performance; Judgments

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  • Crawford, N. N. (2014). Responding to Failure: Essays on Racial Ingroup Bias in Political Judgments [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406136758

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Crawford, Nyron. Responding to Failure: Essays on Racial Ingroup Bias in Political Judgments . 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406136758.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Crawford, Nyron. "Responding to Failure: Essays on Racial Ingroup Bias in Political Judgments ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406136758

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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