A Racial Advantage? Evaluating Minority Candidate Performance with a Regression Discontinuity Approach

• In Event: Racial Politics at the State and Local Levels

Brief Overview

Do voters systematically obstruct minority representation? We use a regression discontinuity design with state legislative election data from 2018 & 2020 to isolate the effect a nominee’s race/ethnicity on the party’s general election performance.

Authors

• Eric J. Juenke, Michigan State University

• Paru Shah, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Ariel White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Bernard L. Fraga, Emory University