How do economic perceptions and confidence in institutions relate to Black men's vote choice after the Obama presidency?
A closer account of the question, evidence, and how to interpret this work.
This coauthored manuscript with Andre Cross examines Black men’s electoral choices in the post-Obama period through economic perceptions and confidence in political institutions. Treating Black voters as a single predictable bloc can obscure differences in political judgment. The stated project instead asks which evaluations help explain variation in electoral decisions within the group under study.
Economic assessments and institutional confidence need not move in parallel. A citizen can be disappointed with personal economic circumstances while retaining confidence that political institutions can respond—or perceive collective improvement while becoming disaffected with specific institutions or candidates. Distinguishing the referent of trust from the object of economic judgment is necessary to interpret an observed relationship.
The current bibliography identifies the manuscript as revise and resubmit, not published. The full manuscript would be needed to document the exact election years, survey instrument, vote-choice coding, model specification, and estimates. This page therefore explains the research question and analytic distinctions without announcing unverified patterns in Black men’s voting.
Source: Cross and Young, From Collective Trust to Individual Disaffection, manuscript listed as revise and resubmit in the 2026 CV.
The full paper was not available among the verified source documents for this update. No sample, regression coefficients, or results are asserted here. Revise and resubmit is a manuscript stage, not publication.
Revise and resubmit · Manuscript · Andre Cross and Laura Young · Current manuscript listed in the 2026 CV.