We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial … total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it possible for the minority to win … minority of 45 senators would be able to block between 20 and 35 percent of nominees. For most parameter values, the …

emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …

Does minority representation in a legislative body differentially impact outcomes for minorities? To examine this …

leave the sciences and take longer to graduate at each campus. We show the vast majority of minority students would be more … results do not apply for non-minority students …

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult … result suggests that the sizable disparities in adult smoking rates between heterosexual and sexual minority men would have … cigarette taxes have ‘lost their bite’, we find no significant relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority smoking …