Standard accounts of legislative behavior typically neglect the activities of professional staff,
who are treated as extensions of the elected officials they serve. However, staff appear to …

Is bias in responsiveness to constituents conditional on the policy preferences of elected
officials? The scholarly conventional wisdom is that constituency groups who do not receive …

Historically, many Black women have viewed political participation as a means to achieve
full equality and improve their status in US society. To this end, Black women have long …

In From Inclusion to Influence, Walter Wilson addresses urgent questions regarding the
political incorporation of Latinos in America. First, he demonstrates that Latino …

Over the past several decades, the number of women elected to higher office in the United
States has grown substantially. However, when the electoral gains of women are considered …

This article examines whether political professionalization causes attitudinal incongruence
within political parties. In this first of a kind study, the internal opinion structure of five Belgian …

This project adopts theories of gendered and racialized professionalism to make visible and
evaluate gender, race, and congressional staff as key and intersecting forces in the function …

This article analyses how the administrative-bureaucratic or staff support structures available
to Members of the European Parliament (Secretariat officials, political group advisors and …

The dissertation 'An Analysis of Legislative Assistance in the EP'treats the problem of
unelected parliamentary officials, which assist the elected members in the EP. The main …

ABSTRACT Members of the United States House of Representatives disproportionately hire
Black and Hispanic staffers into constituent service focussed roles as compared to policy …