Introduction: Exploring and expanding the political world pioneered by Don T. Nakanishi

Aoki, Andrew L.; Lien, Pei-te

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“…We also gathered information on the ethnic origin of Asian American officials. These data were obtained from a variety of sources, including the National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac (Nakanishi and Lai N.d.), the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, various Asian American legislative caucuses, and examination of photos and biographies on legislative websites 10…”

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Diversity Matters: The Election of Asian Americans to U.S. State and Federal Legislatures

Lublin

Wright

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Despite substantial research on descriptive representation for Blacks and Latinos, we know little about the electoral conditions under which Asian candidates win office. Leveraging a new dataset on Asian American legislators elected from 2011 to 2020, combined with pre-existing and newly conducted surveys, we develop and test hypotheses related to Asian American candidates’ ingroup support, and their crossover appeal to other racial and ethnic groups. The data show Asian Americans preferring candidates of their own ethnic origin and of other Asian ethnicities to non-Asian candidates, indicating strong ethnic and panethnic motives. Asian candidates have comparatively strong crossover appeal, winning at higher rates than Blacks or Latinos for any given percentage of the reference group. All else equal, Asian American candidates fare best in multiracial districts, so growing diversity should benefit their electoral prospects. This crossover appeal is not closely tied to motives related to relative group status or threat.

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confidence: 99%