Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The literature has yet to examine the effect of Black American protests on Black American candidacy.With an overwhelming scholarly emphasis on protests' impacts on party success and public opinion, a gap persists.This research examines the effect of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests on Black candidates running in federal, state, and local elections.I conduct a cross-sectional analysis of over 9,000 contests and 13,000 protests.Controlling for a jurisdiction's typical Black electoral success, I find that jurisdictions experiencing more protesting activity elected more Black candidates than other jurisdictions.Protests were particularly associated with Black Democratic success, and negative effects were concentrated among Black Republicans.The results also provide novel evidence that challenges scholars who claim that violent and extreme protest tactics are counterproductive.
Author: Lempert, Julianne
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7010354669
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