{"pk":46862,"title":"Candidate Ethnicity and Latino Voting in Co-Partisan Elections","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The adoption of the top two primary system in California is resulting in a rising number of general elections in which candidates from the same party compete. Incidentally, California is also home to a large and diverse Latino community. When party identification is no longer a reliable cue, do Latino voters turn to the race or ethnicity of a candidate in selecting whom to support? We examine co-partisan Republican general elections in California’s state assembly from 2012‒2016. Using surname-matched precinct-level voter data, we conduct ecological inference analysis to estimate support for candidates based on the ethnicity of voters. Taking the case of Latino voters, we find a strong level of support for Latino Republican candidates, suggesting that a candidate’s ethnicity may inform voters’ strategic decision making in partisan elections.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Latino Politics"},{"word":"State Legislative Elections"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kq704cf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sadhwani","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mendez","name_suffix":"","institution":"California State University, Channel Islands","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2018-10-12T22:29:28-07:00","date_accepted":"2018-10-12T22:29:28-07:00","date_published":"2018-10-12T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46862/galley/35430/download/"}]}