In the past decade, the body of research using experimental approaches to investigate the
responsiveness of elected officials has grown exponentially. Given this explosion of work, a …

How do legislators respond to coethnic and cominority constituents? We conduct an audit
study of all state legislators to explore white legislators' responsiveness to different minority …

This dissertation contributes to understanding the political behavior of two underrepresented
groups: women and ethnoracial minorities. It explores how these groups' political behavior …

This dissertation examines the substantive representation of ethnoracial minorities at the
national level, the inter-minority dynamics of descriptive representation at the state level, and …