Replication Data: Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South – The Effect of the Voting Rights Act
Creators:
Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, and Cecilia Testa
Publication Date:
2022-07-29
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This dataset, hosted on Harvard Dataverse, contains the replication data for the study "Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act" (Bernini, Facchini & Testa, 2023, Journal of Political Economy). It includes historical electoral and demographic data from Southern U.S. counties used to examine how the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which removed barriers to Black voter registration and participation, affected the racial composition of local government representatives and the provision of public goods and services in affected communities.
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