Affirmative advocacy : race, class, and gender in interest group politics / Dara Z. Strolovitch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strolovitch, Dara Z.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressure groups--United States.

Pressure groups.

United States.

Minorities--Political activity--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Political activity.

Physical Description:

xviii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Summary:

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. While her data show that groups often prioritize the interests of advantaged members, Strolovitch also finds that many try to remedy this inequity through 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.

Contents:

Introduction

Closer to a pluralist heaven?

Intersectionality and representation

Trickle-down representation?

Tyranny of the minority? institutional targets and advocacy strategies

Coalition and collaboration among advocacy organizations

Conclusion : affirmative advocacy

Appendix A. Study design : methodology and data collection

Appendix B. Survey questionnaire

Appendix C. Interview protocol.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780226777405

0226777405

9780226777412

0226777413

OCLC:

76141711

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