The political representation of minorities is regarded as a key indicator of the level of democracy in any contemporary political system, and, in the case of ethnic minorities, of their rights and integration in society. In post-communist Eastern Europe, external factors, and particularly the...

Exploiting a district level data set on the 2007/8 post-election violence in Kenya, this paper investigates why polarization between ethnic groups results in violent conflict in some cases, but not in others. After the announcement of highly controversial election results in December 2007,...

The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new dataset of nearly 55,000 electoral contests that encompasses races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities...

How does neighborhood context affect the relationship between individual racial identity, racial attitudes, and vote choice in an urban mayoral election? Although there have been many studies about racial context, racial attitudes and political behavior, for a variety of reasons, including...

Does context alter the impact on urban vote choice of racial attitudes and other individual-level variables? It is well understood that voting in urban mayoral elections is strongly influenced by both racial group identity and racial attitudes about group conflict or cooperation. Also, there is...

In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we find that while being a new immigrant, a woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral...