Underrepresentation Causes Voters to Favor More Diversity in Legislatures: A Survey Experiment and a Natural Experiment of Public Support for Greater Diversity in the U.S. Senate

• In Event: Experiments on Candidate Choice and Policy Support

Brief Overview

We present the results of a survey experiment testing the effect of information about the underrepresentation of minority groups on support for Black women in office, both before and after the actual appointment of a Black woman to the U.S. Senate.

Authors

• Christian R. Grose, University of Southern California

• Antoine Yoshinaka, University at Buffalo - SUNY