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,...

Early democratic theorists argued that one purpose of a democratic government is to increase the happiness of its citizens. However, all democracies are not equal. Some democracies through their institutional arrangements create broader representation to their citizens, while others reduce...