#FirstView from Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Dilemmas in Representation: Immigration, Identity, and Political Parties - cup.org/4mpgL5C - jeremiah cha, Justin Gest 🦋 & Tom K. Wong #JREP10

Usual caveats abound with the Asian American sample (see this great Pia Deshpande and jeremiah cha write up linked below) but younger Asian Americans are also more likely to identify as Republican and less likely to identify as Democrats than in 2016 cces.gov.harvard.edu/publications/d…

Do foreign-born legislators better represent immigrants' interests? In Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, based on roll call data + interviews w/ 25 members of 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦 Congress/Parliament, Tom K. Wong, jeremiah cha, and I find more immigrants doesn't mean more representation. cup.org/4mpgL5C

🔍 A spotlight from earlier this month in LSQ: "Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict" by jeremiah cha (Harvard University) & Jon Rogowski (The University of Chicago). Access it at the link below. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

#OpenAccess from Perspectives on Politics - Collective Representation in Congress - cup.org/3JsSgWS - Stephen Ansolabehere & Shiro Kuriwaki #FirstView

How often do final Congressional decisions on key votes reflect public opinion, and what does that tell us about Congress as a legislative institution? Our collective representation piece now has a home in Perspectives on Politics. (1/n)

Steve and Shiro are leading voices in the question of issue representation - give their PoP a read!

Excited to share our preprint, "How Responsive is Local Immigration Enforcement to Constituency Preferences?", where Asya Magazinnik and I examine whether county sheriffs are responsive to restrictive immigration preferences. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…