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Socioeconomic Factors And Their Influence On Introduction This paper will seek to determine if there is a relationship between certain socioeconomic factors and the political efficacy as well as the political ideologies of African-Americans. This paper will in no way be focusing on whom the respondents voted for as so much of the previous literature has. This study will build off of the existing research and hopefully lend to the current analysis of the subject. Review of the Literature Many studies on this topic have been done looking at political efficacy and how that relates to political participation. One such study by John C. Pierce and Addison Carey Jr. did just this. This study defined efficacy as, “the feeling that a person can influence political outcomes through his participation” (Pierce and Carey 1971, 202). Their examination looked at four main problems: (1) how much are individuals participating, (2) analyze political efficacy and how that relates to traditional and nontraditional participation, (3) relate efficacy to the types of problems which blacks are concerned about, and (4) look at how efficacy and voter registration experiences influence each other. For the purpose of this paper the findings are not that important, but it is most important to note that Pierce and Carey political, efficacy, study, rogers, variables, found, black, respondent, important, ideology, 1974, carey, pierce, education, previous, low, literature, findings, significant, determining, participation, maio, income, de, bolce, blacks, age, factor, cynicism, students, status, should, five, 1993, 1971