Twice as Good: Redefining Candidate Quality for Black Candidates for Statewide Office

• In Event: Racial and Gendered Barriers to Electability

Brief Overview

In this paper, I explore the reasons for the lack of electoral success among Black nominees for statewide office, using a novel dataset of election performance that includes all Black major party nominees for governor and US Senate since 2018.

Author

• Andra Gillespie, Emory University