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		<title>The Party Faithful: Partisan Images, Candidate Religion, and the Electoral Impact of Party Identification</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American voters tend to vote for their party&#8217;s candidate. That&#8217;s not news. The question is, why? Political science has usually relied on three answers. The psychological approach says that voters support their party because of a deep, emotional, psychological attachment to it (see The American Voter). The rational approach characterized partisanship as a &#8220;running tally&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impartial Judges? Race, Institutional Context, and U.S. State Supreme Courts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We like to think that in our form of government, political officials represent the citizens at large. Trouble is, it&#8217;s hard to know what &#8220;represent&#8221; means. Often, we talk about representation through two major lenses. &#8220;Descriptive&#8221; representation refers to whether people in government look like Americans generally (in terms of race, gender, maybe even age, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women and minorities have a tough time winning American elections. Although half of Americans are female, only 15% of Congress is. Although only 69% of Americans are white, 89% of state legislators and 84% of House members are white. This problem is not unique to the states. Some countries have adopted a quota system to [...]]]></description>
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