This research focuses on the empirical analysis of the intersection of race, ethnicity, and democratic politics.
CONVENOR: Louis DeSipio
FACULTY
Frank Bean
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine 
Louis DeSipio
Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Cynthia Feliciano
Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Sara Goodman
Assistant Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Bernard Grofman
Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Claire Kim
Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Jennifer Lee
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Belinda Robnett
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Katherine Tate
Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Carole Uhlaner
Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
ILLUSTRATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
Black Attitudes toward the Bush Administration
African Americans, Identity and Political Participation in the Post-1960s Era
Demonstrations in the Vietnamese-American Community
Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Legislative Participation
Race and the Political Incorporation of Racial Minorities in Comparative Perspective
Social Capital, Race, Ethnicity and Participation
CONFERENCES
The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Katherine Tate, Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and their Representatives in Congress
. (Princeton University Press, 2003).
David Meyer, Nancy Whittier, and Belinda Robnett, editors. Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2002).
RECENT RESEARCH PAPERS
Belinda Robnett-Olsen, Does Collective Identity Matter? African-American Conventional
and Unconventional Political Participation (CSD-07-05)
Belinda Robnett-Olsen, Gendered Resource Returns: African American Institutions and
Policical Engagement (CSD-07-04)
Miki C. Kittilson and Katherine Tate, Political Parties, Minorities and Elected Office: Comparing Opportunities for Inclusion
in the U.S. and Britain (CSD04-06)
Jon Fraenkel and Bernard Grofman, A Neo-Downsian Model of the Alternative Vote as a Mechanism for Mitigating Ethnic
Conflict in Plural Societies (CSD04-01)
Steve Weldon, Images of Nationhood and Tolerance of Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative Analysis of
Western Europe (CSD03-09)
Louis DeSipio, Immigrant Organizing, Civic Outcomes: Civic Engagement, Political Activity, National
Attachment, and Identity in Latino Immigrant Communities (CSD02-08)
Carole Uhlaner, The Impact of Perceived Representation on Latino Political Participation (CSD02-06)