Do quotas raise legislative diversity and reduce inequities between the dominant and minority groups? This paper studies how quota mechanisms affect legislative diversity in 11 countries in Asia Pa...

Ethnic Quotas, Political Representation and Equity in Asia Pacific

Understanding when and why minority candidates emerge and win in particular districts entails critical implications for redistricting and the Voting Rights Act. I introduce a quantitatively predictive logical model of minority candidate emergence and electoral success—a mathematical formula based on deductive logic that can logically explain and accurately predict the exact probability at which minority candidates run for office and win in given districts. I show that the logical model can predict about 90% of minority candidate emergence and 95% of electoral success by leveraging unique data of mayoral elections in Louisiana from 1986 to 2016 and state legislative general elections in 36 states in 2012 and 2014. I demonstrate that the logical model can be used to answer many important questions about minority representation in redistricting and voting rights cases. All applications of the model can be easily implemented via an open-source software logical.

A Logical Model for Predicting Minority Representation: Application to Redistricting and Voting Rights Cases

On all levels and in very different contexts, administrative borderlands are often centres of functional specialisation as well as derogatory and potentially innovative initiatives or practices. Beyond the handicap of discontinuity created by administrative boundaries, institutional agreements take place officially to a greater or lesser extent, in order to manage an uncertain and complex situation. Observing these processes in contexts as different as those of Togo, France, Niger, Morocco and South Africa enables us to bring out certain geopolitical patterns indicating relations between centres and peripheries, and between various levels of territorial administration (e.g. municipalities, regions and central states). Perhaps, for that matter, the much sought-after new formulae of territorial governance are developed on these borderlands.

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Margins at the heart of territorial innovation ? : a comparative look at administrative borderlands (South Africa, France, Morocco, Niger and Togo)

What mechanisms assure not just the presence of ethnic minority representatives but also the representation of their interests on political agendas? Research on this question has been limited. Whil...

Ethnic Parties and Indigenous Substantive Representation in Ecuador

ABSTRACT This article introduces the special issue and places the eight contributions in context. It offers a discussion of the key terms and highlights the contributions of the articles for forging new research agendas on ethnic inclusion and political representation. Drawing from cases from the Asia Pacific, Americas and Europe, this special collection of papers investigates the effects and practices of electoral designs on the descriptive and substantive effects of ethnic minority representation based on both qualitative and quantitative methods. Together, the findings seek to engender debate and advance contemporary scholarship on comparative democratisation, electoral and party politics and conflict resolution studies on indigenous and ethnic minority representation.

Introduction: Quotas, Parties and Electoral Design – Mechanisms and Effects of Ethnic Representation in Diverse Societies

The conventional wisdom that List PR is the best electoral system for ensuring the inclusion of racial, ethnic or other minorities in parliament is not necessarily true if the minority group has no...

Drawing Electoral Districts to Promote Minority Representation

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