Minority Descriptive Representation at the Municipal Level

• In Event: Minority Representation and Outcomes in American Democracy

Brief Overview

Using a novel dataset of elected officials in the 500 largest U.S. cities we show that municipal-level representation is shaped by institutional factors as well as local level ideology and political pressures.

Authors

• Angela Ximena Ocampo, University of Michigan

• Ana Luisa Oaxaca, University of California-Los Angeles