Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Assessing the Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Behavior -- 2. Latino Politics in the Twenty-First Century: A New Theory of Latino Political Behavior -- 3. Theory Meets Reality: Elite Perspectives on Latino Mobilization -- 4. Does Ethnic Identification Trump Party Identification?: Evaluating Latino Vote Choice in a Hypothetical Setting -- 5. The Impact of Latino Mayoral Candidates on Latino Voters: New Evidence from Five Mayoral Elections, 2001-2003 -- 6. Latino Candidates for State Legislature and Congress: How Multiple Co-Ethnic Candidates Affect Turnout -- 7. ¿Viva Bill Richardson? Latino Voters and the 2008 Presidential Election -- 8. Ethnic Cues and the New American Voter: Implications and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.