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Casellas, Jason Paul.

Latino representation in Congress and state legislatures.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Latino representation in Congress and state legislatures.
Author:	Casellas, Jason Paul.
Description:	233 p.
Notes:	Adviser: R. Douglas Arnold.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 3074.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188614
ISBN:	9780542306860

Latino representation in Congress and state legislatures.
Casellas, Jason Paul.

Latino representation in Congress and state legislatures. - 233 p.

Adviser: R. Douglas Arnold.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

I answer the second question by collecting the first ever database of Latino legislators elected to non-Latino majority districts in all fifty states. This chapter identifies three major ways that Latinos have been successful at winning in non-Latino majority districts. Through elite-driven actions, many Latinos have won in legislative districts because of the actions of party leaders (e.g., minority recruitment). On the other hand, many Latinos have won without any apparent elite driven assistance. Third, features of the electoral system, such as multi-candidate primaries, account for the election of some Latinos to legislatures. This chapter is an exploratory analysis of the sixty-five Latinos who have won election in districts where they have no natural advantages.

ISBN: 9780542306860Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Latino representation in Congress and state legislatures.
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520 # $a I answer the second question by collecting the first ever database of Latino legislators elected to non-Latino majority districts in all fifty states. This chapter identifies three major ways that Latinos have been successful at winning in non-Latino majority districts. Through elite-driven actions, many Latinos have won in legislative districts because of the actions of party leaders (e.g., minority recruitment). On the other hand, many Latinos have won without any apparent elite driven assistance. Third, features of the electoral system, such as multi-candidate primaries, account for the election of some Latinos to legislatures. This chapter is an exploratory analysis of the sixty-five Latinos who have won election in districts where they have no natural advantages.
520 # $a I use statistical analysis to examine roll-call voting in Congress, and in several states. This chapter first replicates Hero and Tolbert's (1995) analysis of Latino substantive representation for the 100th Congress using Poole-Rosenthal scores. It finds no significant effects from having a Latino representative. For the 87th--104 th Congresses, however, the results are different---representation by a Mexican or Puerto Rican representative is associated with a more liberal ideology score. Further analyses in this chapter test roll-call voting patterns in the Texas, Colorado, and New Jersey legislatures.
520 # $a In order to answer the first question, I have collected and analyzed district-level data from seven states going back to the 1990s. I hypothesize that the strongest predictor of Latino presence in legislatures is the percentage of Latinos in district. While this hypothesis turns out to be true across all seven states and Congress, the differences among states are enormous.
520 # $a This dissertation examines the conditions under which Latinos are elected to state legislatures and Congress. Besides the U.S. House, I am focusing on Arizona, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Texas, California, and Florida. No systematic study has investigated this subject. In an effort to fill this research gap, my dissertation explores the following questions: (1) Under what conditions are Latinos elected to state legislatures and Congress? (2) Are majority-Latino districts required in order to elect Latinos? (3) To what extent do Latino legislators vote differently than non-Latino legislators?
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