Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated
rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do …

This review examines the role of race in the decennial process of redistricting. I review the
scholarly literature on three related questions: What role should racial redistricting play in …

We use state legislator ideology estimates (standardized W‐nominate values) to examine
whether Latino and African American legislator ideological differences can be explained …

Record numbers of women, and in particular women of color, are gaining elective office
across the country. This article explores how their presence in legislative bodies might make …

Latino-majority congressional districts are far more likely to elect Latino representatives to
Congress than majority-white districts. However, not all majority-Latino districts do so. This …

Though African-American and Latino electoral success in state legislative and
congressional elections continues to occur almost entirely in majority-minority districts …

From Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren to Stacey Abrams and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
women around the country are running in—and winning—elections at an unprecedented …

For most of the 400-year history of state legisla-tures, women and racial/ethnic minorities
have been excluded as both voters and elected representatives. Although many African …

Prior work has shown that Latino candidates do not under-perform compared to other
candidates, and that Latino underrepresentation is a function of supply rather than demand …

As studies using macrolevel evidence have shown, citizens are more satisfied with
democracy when they feel that their instrumental preferences are represented in …