Cameron Sells
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cameron Sells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cameron |
| FAMILY NAME | Sells |
| SIGNATURE | SELLS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8414-3943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Descriptive Representation and Party Building
This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents based on gendered criteria, disproportionately incentivizing women to recruit party members. However, gendered resource inequalities lower women's access to the patronage required for recruitment. Women respond by recruiting more women members, as it lowers recruitment co…
Race and Campaign Resources
Party elites may hinder racial and ethnic minorities from winning public office by withholding resources. Prior studies have explored the distribution of money, media access, and party-list positions. In Brazil, party elites provide each candidate with a unique identification number. Voters must enter their preferred candidate’s identification number into an electronic voting machine to register their support. In this article, we replicate and ex…
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Building Parties from City Hall
Under what conditions does local incumbency help a party recruit new members? In this article, I use a regression discontinuity design to study the consequences of municipal incumbency for party membership recruitment in Brazil, and I find that the effect of incumbency on grassroots party building is conditional on the party's prior level of institutionalization. Municipal incumbency increased membership recruitment only among centralized and pro…
Less is more
Building Parties from City Hall
Under what conditions does local incumbency help a party recruit new members? In this article, I use a regression discontinuity design to study the consequences of municipal incumbency for party membership recruitment in Brazil, and I find that the effect of incumbency on grassroots party building is conditional on the party's prior level of institutionalization. Municipal incumbency increased membership recruitment only among centralized and pro…
Descriptive Representation and Party Building
This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents based on gendered criteria, disproportionately incentivizing women to recruit party members. However, gendered resource inequalities lower women's access to the patronage required for recruitment. Women respond by recruiting more women members, as it lowers recruitment co…
Race and Campaign Resources
Party elites may hinder racial and ethnic minorities from winning public office by withholding resources. Prior studies have explored the distribution of money, media access, and party-list positions. In Brazil, party elites provide each candidate with a unique identification number. Voters must enter their preferred candidate’s identification number into an electronic voting machine to register their support. In this article, we replicate and ex…
Building Parties from City Hall
Under what conditions does local incumbency help a party recruit new members? In this article, I use a regression discontinuity design to study the consequences of municipal incumbency for party membership recruitment in Brazil, and I find that the effect of incumbency on grassroots party building is conditional on the party's prior level of institutionalization. Municipal incumbency increased membership recruitment only among centralized and pro…
Race and Campaign Resources
Party elites may hinder racial and ethnic minorities from winning public office by withholding resources. Prior studies have explored the distribution of money, media access, and party-list positions. In Brazil, party elites provide each candidate with a unique identification number. Voters must enter their preferred candidate’s identification number into an electronic voting machine to register their support. In this article, we replicate and ex…
Less is more
Descriptive Representation and Party Building
This article highlights a new way in which descriptive representation enhances democracy through inclusive party building. We theorize that parties retain and promote incumbents based on gendered criteria, disproportionately incentivizing women to recruit party members. However, gendered resource inequalities lower women's access to the patronage required for recruitment. Women respond by recruiting more women members, as it lowers recruitment co…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Business (2 works)