Abstract
Bureaucratic representation is the idea that nonelected officials can address the interests of citizens as effectively as elected officials can. It has an active component and a passive component. The passive component is the concept that citizens are affected in a different way cognitively by a bureaucratic actor who resembles them than by one who does not. The chief difficulty in addressing the question of a symbolic effect has been a reliance on aggregate data. This study uses as its data supplemental surveys to the National Crime Victimization Survey called the Police-Public Contact Survey. A difference was found in how African American and White citizens react to police officers.
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