The Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School will host the first Guinier Project Research Roundtable in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Hilton Caribe, on January 7–8, 2025 as a preconference to the Southern Political Science Association’s annual meeting.
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The Guinier Project is a research and advocacy initiative that seeks to understand the impact of various electoral systems reform for racial justice and racial representation. The purpose of the Roundtable is to develop an intellectual research agenda, identify gaps in the literature, and define areas for future research.
To facilitate our discussion, the Houston Institute will prepare and share a literature review of the electoral systems literature in various subfields, such engineering inclusion: the variety of electoral system designs used to improve minority representation; the political construction and measurement of race and racial identity; thresholds of exclusion, representation, and electability; the psychological and sociological factors that shape racial and ethnic representation; contextual and organizational constraints on voter mobilization and party fragmentation; how political parties enact and respond to electoral rules; the relationship among electoral design, ethno-nationalist movements, polarization, and governance; and the consequences of electoral design for race, representation, and law.