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IN Progress

Effects of Neighborhood Quality and Access to Services on Evaluations of the State (under review)

Coauthored with Tyson King-Meadows and Jessica Lynn Stewart

Abstract: Rising intra-group socioeconomic inequality and uneven neighborhood development raise the question: to what extent does local context influence engagement with the state? We argue both objective and subjective indicators of neighborhood quality along with access to local services affect feelings of local government trust, responsiveness, and non-voting participation. Combining spatial analysis and the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS), we find that Black people who perceive high-quality access to goods and services in their neighborhood positively relate to the government in three ways. They trust their local government to do what is right, believe public officials are responsive to their community, and participate in politics beyond voting. Though this paper focuses on African Americans, these findings emphasize the continued importance of neighborhood-level experiences as a source of information for politics and for understanding intra-group differences. This work expands understanding of contextual dynamics that complicate interactions between non-whites and local governments.