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    "pk": 46969,
    "title": "How Are Minority Staffers Utilized? Evidence from the California State Assembly",
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    "abstract": "<p>Legislative staffers are among legislators’ most valuable assets and their appointment by legislators is strategic. Past research has focused on how legislative staffer appointments help legislators meet policy or constituency service goals. In this article I advance the literature by theorizing how minority staffers are utilized. I hypothesize, and show using novel data from the California State Assembly, that state legislators disproportionally place Hispanic and Asian American Pacific Islander staffers in constituency service positions. This may be done as an effort to provide a form of surrogate descriptive representation. Concerningly, because minority staffers are more likely to be placed in constituency service positions, minority staffers are less likely to be placed in policy orientated positions where they might have the most influence over substantive policymaking. This leads to a situation where minority staffers are placed in visible constituency service appointments but continue to be underrepresented in key policy appointments.</p>",
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    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Legislative Staff"
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            "word": "California State Assembly"
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        {
            "first_name": "Michelangelo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Landgrave",
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            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2025-01-09T21:16:11Z",
    "date_accepted": "2025-01-09T21:16:11Z",
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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