The role of race, ethnicity, and party on attitudes toward descriptive representation

American Politics Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 144-169

  Casellas, Jason P ^a   Wallace, Sophia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Partisanship; Race; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918501305     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X14535239     Document Type: Article

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