Race and the politics of close elections

☆ For their guidance throughout this project, I am gr Goldin, and Lawrence Katz. I also benefitted from helpfu Knight, three anonymous referees, Ruchir Agarwal, Albe Giglio, Anh-Thu Ngo, Thomas Roemer, Heidi Williams Harvard, the Northeastern Political Science Associatio Summer Institute meetings on the Development of th Joseph Gyourko and Fernando Ferreira for kindly sharing data and acknowledge funding from the Multidisciplina Social Policy and the Center for American Political Studies E-mail address: [email protected].