At-Large Elections and Descriptive Representation in US Municipalities

• In Event: Race and Local Politics

Brief Overview

We compile a novel dataset of electoral institutions and elected officials' race and ethnicity for over 15,000 US cities in order to examine how at-large and district elections affect descriptive representation in city government.

Authors

• E. Grant Baldwin, University of California-Los Angeles

• Dan Butler, Washington University in St Louis

• Adam Michael Dynes, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Michelle Torres, University of California-Los Angeles