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- Title
Representing Latinos: Examining Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Congress.
- Authors
Wallace, Sophia J.
- Abstract
Using an original data set of roll call votes and bill co-sponsorships across three high salience issues (immigration, labor, and education) and one low salience issue (social security), this article analyzes the 111th Congress to assess representation of Latinos. Partisanship is the key determinant in member behavior on voting, not the member’s race or ethnicity or constituent demographics. For bill co-sponsorships, Latino members are only more active on high salience issue areas compared with non-Latino members. Increases in Latino population do not influence behavior. The results also indicate that African American and Democratic legislators offer Latinos considerable amounts of substantive representation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; REPRESENTATIVE government; HISPANIC Americans; UNITED States. Congress; UNITED States legislators; CONSTITUENTS (Persons); LEGISLATIVE voting; PARTISANSHIP; HISPANIC American legislators; AFRICAN American legislators; DEMOCRATS (United States)
- Publication
Political Research Quarterly, 2014, Vol 67, Issue 4, p917
- ISSN
1065-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1065912914541795