TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jones, Daniel B
AU  - Troesken, Werner
AU  - Walsh, Randall
TI  - A Poll Tax by any Other Name:  The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 18612
PY  - 2012
Y2  - December 2012
DO  - 10.3386/w18612
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18612
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w18612.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daniel B. Jones
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
E-Mail: dbj3@pitt.edu

Werner Troesken
E-Mail: N/A user is deceased

Randall Walsh
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
4901 WW Posvar Hall
230 S. Bouquet St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: 412/648-1737
Fax: 412/648-3011
E-Mail: walshr@pitt.edu
AB  - In this paper, we examine the political economy of voting rights in the American South.   We begin by measuring the impact of both formal laws and informal modes of voter suppression on African-American political participation.  In contrast to prior research, we find evidence that both formal and informal modes of voter suppression were important and mutually reinforcing.  Part of our analysis includes explicitly identifying the magnitude and causal effects of lynching on black voter participation.  We then turn to analyzing to the relatively unexplored question of how disenfranchisement-and the accompanying shifts in political power-affected policy outcomes, congressional voting, and partisan control of state and federal legislatures.
ER  -