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Affirmative Advocacy (Hardcover)
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Affirmative Advocacy (Hardcover)
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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.
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