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Amidst pandemic and racial upheaval: Where Asian Americans Fit
Amidst pandemic and racial upheaval: Where Asian Americans Fit

As racial tensions flare amidst a global pandemic and national social justice upheaval, the centrality of structural racism has renewed old questions and raised new ones about where Asian Americans fit in U.S. politics. This paper provides an [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2020.46
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Racialized Anti-Statism and the Failure of the American State
Racialized Anti-Statism and the Failure of the American State

How well do we understand the political moment in which we find ourselves in the wake of the Trump presidency? The United States has long failed to keep up with its democratic peers on a wide range of social outcomes but the struggle to keep a [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2020.41
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Race and non-electoral political participation in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States
Race and non-electoral political participation in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States

This paper examines the context-dependent role of race as a predictor of non-electoral political participation. Prior country-level studies have documented group-level differences in a variety of forms of participation in South Africa and the [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2021.29
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Beyond descriptive representation: American Indian opposition to federal legislation
Beyond descriptive representation: American Indian opposition to federal legislation

This study explores how American Indians use interest group strategies to block federal legislation. Unlike other disadvantaged groups, who have influenced public policymaking through descriptive representation, American Indians have turned to [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2021.38
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The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties
The Origins and Consequences of Racialized Schemas about U.S. Parties

Two parallel processes structure American politics in the current moment: partisan polarization and the increasing linkage between racial attitudes and issue preferences of all sorts. We develop a novel theory that roots these two trends in hi [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2022.4
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Electoral Double-Bind: How Electoral Environments Affect Racial and Ethnic Youth Voting Behavior
Electoral Double-Bind: How Electoral Environments Affect Racial and Ethnic Youth Voting Behavior

Previous research on the voting propensity of young Americans has largely treated the effects of state electoral laws as homogenous, despite today’s youth belonging to the most racially and ethnically diverse age cohort to date. Research has d [...]

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2022.5
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