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 …

Political institutions in the US continue to be dominated by men. Media and scholarly
accounts often focus on how demand factors, such as political parties and elite networks …

Immigrants and other minorities are underrepresented in politics in most Western
democracies. We argue that strategically acting party gatekeepers who update their …

Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so
persistent? Many researchers have asserted that the main shortfall happens at the …

Voters use heuristics to help them make decisions when they lack information about political
choices. Candidate appearance operates as a powerful low-information cue. However …

Although scholars of representation have examined variation in voter support conditional on
shared demographic traits, we know little about how voters respond to candidates who …

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 …

Understanding when and why minority candidates emerge and win in particular districts
entails critical implications for redistricting and the Voting Rights Act. I introduce a …

In this research note, we explore compare and contrast three methods for measuring race.
We utilize as our baseline, or “true”, measure expert coded racial categories, and to this …