We examine the impact of a candidate's gender on electoral success in the primary and general elections, while controlling for other factors that may influence a candidate's success such as political experience, quality of the challenging candidates, and district-level demographics. The...

The research question that guides this project is what influences vote preference among nonpartisan Latinos in presidential elections. Data from the 2006 Latino National Survey (N=8634) will be used to explore hypotheses that bear vote preference, drawn from two mutually overlapping theories,...

The article examines two traditional explanations on committee composition along with four new hypotheses. Instead of comparing aggregate committee composition to the composition of the parent chamber at large, as in most studies, committee composition is studied on an individual level. Using...

Recent trends in judicial elections, including expensive rough-and-tumble campaigns characterized by televised attack advertising and politicized discourse, are causing advocacy groups and legal scholars to condemn the practice of electing judges. This paper addresses an important aspect of this...