Latino Opinion and Action in the Struggle for America's Political Future

E Pérez, J Cobian - Annual Review of Political Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Nearly 20 years have passed since this journal's last review of Latino politics. Today,
American politics have shifted dramatically, even alarmingly, with Latinos absorbing and …

Evaluating (in) experience in congressional elections

R Porter, SA Treul - American Journal of Political Science, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
From the 1980s to the mid‐2010s, nearly three‐quarters of members newly elected to the
US House of Representatives had previous elected experience; however, only half of the …

Men and women candidates are similarly persistent after losing elections

R Bernhard… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Are women more likely to quit politics after losing their first race than men? Women's first-
time candidacies skyrocketed in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Yet we have little …

¿ Quién Importa? State Legislators and Their Responsiveness to Undocumented Immigrants

MM Garcia, S Sadhwani - Political Research Quarterly, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Do undocumented immigrants matter as constituents for state legislators? In this study we
examine legislator responsiveness to differing ethnicities and immigration statuses of …

Harnessing the Power of Emotions: How Women of Color Use Emotional Appeals in Their Campaign Messages

M Santia, NM Bauer… - Political Research …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Women of color are running for political office at higher rates in recent US elections, and
existing scholarship is only starting to investigate the communication strategies of women of …

Here comes everybody: Using a data cooperative to understand the new dynamics of representation

PR Shah, EG Juenke, BL Fraga - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
While women and racial and ethnic minorities remain underrepresented throughout the
United States, the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of candidates in state and federal …

Challenges reported by candidates for local office

P Levine, D Abromowitz - State and Local Government …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A survey of 711 candidates for local offices in the United States, conducted in December
2021, reveals that many were concerned before they began their campaigns about the …

Representation and Anti-Racist Policymaking in US Cities during COVID-19

EM Farris, MR Holman, ME Sullivan - Representation, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare deep-rooted racial and gender disparities in the United
States. The lack of national policy produced an uneven patchwork of local policies. We …

Evaluating the Minority Candidate Penalty with a Regression Discontinuity Approach

A White, P Shah, EG Juenke, BL Fraga - British Journal of Political …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Do parties face an electoral penalty when they nominate candidates of colour? We employ a
regression discontinuity design using state legislative election data from 2018, 2019, and …

Does Incumbency Matter? Black Voter Support for Non-Incumbent POC Democratic Candidates in the 2018 Congressional House of Representative Elections

A Benjamin, SL Carr - National Review of Black Politics, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
During the 2018 House of Representatives elections, the United States saw a larger influx of
minority candidates than elections in recent years. Many of these candidates were non …