Affirmative Advocacy - Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

Informationen zum Autor Dara Z. Strolovitch is professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies, American studies, and political science at Yale University, and she is coeditor of the American Political Science Review . She is the author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics , also published by Chicago. Klappentext The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z. Strolovitch explores the challenges and opportunities they face in the new millennium, as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent. Drawing on rich new data from a survey of 286 organizations and interviews with forty officials, Strolovitch finds that groups too often prioritize the interests of their most advantaged members: male rather than female racial minorities, for example, or affluent rather than poor women. But Strolovitch also finds that many organizations try to remedy this inequity, and she concludes by distilling their best practices into a set of principles that she calls affirmative advocacy-a form of representation that aims to overcome the entrenched but often subtle biases against people at the intersection of more than one marginalized group. Intelligently combining political theory with sophisticated empirical methods, Affirmative Advocacy will be required reading for students and scholars of American politics. Zusammenfassung The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics. This work explores the challenges and opportunities they face! as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent. ...

Product details

• Authors: Dara Z Strolovitch, Dara Z. Strolovitch, STROLOVITCH DARA Z, Strolovitch Dara Z.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2007
• EAN: 9780226777412
• ISBN: 978-0-226-77741-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Gender studies, gender groups, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Pressure groups & lobbying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General