Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics
Dara Z. Strolovitch
Abstract
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. This systematic study of these organizations 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 data from a survey of 286 organizations and interviews with forty officials, the author finds that groups too often prioritize the interests of their most ... More
Keywords: racial minorities, legal discrimination, economic inequalities, organizations, poor women, inequity, affirmative advocacy, representation, biases, marginalized group
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226777405 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: March 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226777450.001.0001 |
