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Informationen zum Autor Jason Casellas is Assistant Professor of Government and Associate Director of the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. He specializes in American politics, with specific research and teaching interests in Latino politics, legislative politics and state and local politics. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Princeton President's Fellowship, an American Political Science Association Fellowship and a Ford Motor Company Fellowship. His dissertation won third place in a nationwide, interdisciplinary competition for the best dissertation given by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and Educational Testing Service. In 2007–8, he was the Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University. In 2009–10, he was a visiting postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Studies Centre in Sydney, Australia. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Qualitative Methods and the Journal of California Politics and Policy. Klappentext Examines the growth of the number of Latinos serving in U.S. state legislatures and Congress in the past two decades. Zusammenfassung Examines the growth of the number of Latinos serving in US state legislatures and Congress in the past two decades. It analyzes the factors that help explain the election of Latinos to different legislative institutions and argues that we must look beyond simple demographics to explain their growing numbers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Latinos in legislatures: historical and theoretical setting; 3. The effects of population, turnover, and term limits on Latino representation; 4. District composition and the election of Latino candidates; 5. Electing Latinos in non-Latino majority districts; 6. Voices from within: how Latino legislators see themselves; 7. Roll call voting behavior of Latino legislators; 8. Conclusion....
