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--. Bridging the Divide: Why Minority Elected Officials Are More Responsive to Citizen Requests. pp. This project builds on a replication analysis of a nationwide audit experiment in Indian cities to better understand the underlying sources of the divide in political responsiveness between majority and minority elected officials. The initial research examined why politicians in host societies discriminate against migrants when providing constituency services and found that politicians’ beliefs about migrants’ low turnout propensity in local city elections undermines the ability of migrant groups to secure basic services from the state. In my replication, I extend the analysis to specifically examine differences between local elected officials of majority Hindu and minority Muslim faiths. I find that minority Muslim councilors are more likely to respond to consistency service requests from unregistered migrants than majority Hindu councilors, despite lacking electoral incentives to do so. I explain these results as indicative of social-psychological motivations among minority representatives.

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  title = {Bridging the divide: Why minority elected officials are more responsive to citizen requests},
  pages = {This project builds on a replication analysis of a nationwide audit experiment in Indian cities to better understand the underlying sources of the divide in political responsiveness between majority and minority elected officials. The initial research examined why politicians in host societies discriminate against migrants when providing constituency services and found that politicians’ beliefs about migrants’ low turnout propensity in local city elections undermines the ability of migrant groups to secure basic services from the state. In my replication, I extend the analysis to specifically examine differences between local elected officials of majority Hindu and minority Muslim faiths. I find that minority Muslim councilors are more likely to respond to consistency service requests from unregistered migrants than majority Hindu councilors, despite lacking electoral incentives to do so. I explain these results as indicative of social-psychological motivations among minority representatives.},
  author = {--}
}