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--. Bridging the Divide: Why Minority Elected Officials Are More Responsive to Citizen Requests. pp. This project, currently in the data analysis stage, builds on a replication analysis of a nationwide audit experiment in Indian cities to argue that descriptive representation can enhance political responsiveness even in the absence of electoral quotas. The initial research examined why politicians in host societies discriminate against migrants in providing constituency services and found that politicians’ beliefs about migrants’ low turnout propensity undermine the ability of migrant groups to secure basic services from the state. In my replication, I extended 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 non-co-ethnics than majority Hindu councilors. Additionally, my findings reveal that minority councilors are more responsive to requests from unregistered migrants than their majority counterparts, despite lacking an electoral incentive 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, currently in the data analysis stage, builds on a replication analysis of a nationwide audit experiment in Indian cities to argue that descriptive representation can enhance political responsiveness even in the absence of electoral quotas. The initial research examined why politicians in host societies discriminate against migrants in providing constituency services and found that politicians’ beliefs about migrants’ low turnout propensity undermine the ability of migrant groups to secure basic services from the state. In my replication, I extended 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 non-co-ethnics than majority Hindu councilors. Additionally, my findings reveal that minority councilors are more responsive to requests from unregistered migrants than their majority counterparts, despite lacking an electoral incentive to do so. I explain these results as indicative of social-psychological motivations among minority representatives.},
  author = {--}
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