Party Votes and Ethnic Minority Candidates in Latvia

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Brief Overview

Do parties benefit from nominating ethnic minority candidates in preferential vote systems? We argue that he benefit is limited to those districts with significant numbers of minority voters.

Authors

• Frank C. Thames, Texas Tech University

• Stephen Bloom, Southern Illinois University

• Daunis Auers, University of Latvia