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Do voters assess political candidates differently based on their race or ethnicity? A recent meta-analysis, published in Acta Politica, sought to answer this by pooling data from 43 experiments conducted over the past decade. The findings reveal that, generally, voters do not assess racial or ethnic minority candidates differently from their white counterparts. These results challenge the notion that racial bias significantly impacts the electoral prospects of minority candidates. The study, spearheaded by Sanne van Oosten, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford specializing in …

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