Nowhere to run : race, gender, and immigration in American elections /
Nowhere to Run introduces the intersectional model of electoral opportunity, which argues that descriptive representation in elections is shaped by intersecting processes related to race and gender. Drawing on an original dataset encompassing nearly every state legislative general election from 1996...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Nowhere to Run introduces the intersectional model of electoral opportunity, which argues that descriptive representation in elections is shaped by intersecting processes related to race and gender. Drawing on an original dataset encompassing nearly every state legislative general election from 1996-2015, as well as interviews and surveys with candidates, donors, and other political elites from 42 states, the book tests this theory with a first of its kind study of Asian American and Latina/o candidacies, and the first simultaneous look at the relationship between changing populations and desc. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780197538968 0197538967 9780197538975 0197538975 9780197538951 0197538959 |