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Minority candidates for Westminster continue to suffer electorally from ethnic and religious prejudice

Stegmaier, Mary, Lewis-Beck, Michael and Smets, Kaat (2014) Minority candidates for Westminster continue to suffer electorally from ethnic and religious prejudice. Democratic Audit Blog (02 Jan 2014). Website.

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Abstract

Incumbent political representatives benefit from the presence of British, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) challengers in their constituency, according to a worrying new study into the role that the race and ethnicity of candidates played in the 2010 British General Election. Summarising the research, Mary Stegmaier, Michael Lewis-Beck and Kaat Smets show that the incumbent party in a constituency typically gained at least two percentage points in vote share when they had a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic challenger.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://www.democraticaudit.com/
Additional Information: © Democratic Audit UK
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2014 15:09
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 13:39
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56283

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