{"product_id":"affirmative-advocacy-race-class-and-gender-in-interest-group-politics-9780226777412","title":"Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e the populations they represent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAffirmative Advocacy\u003c\/i\u003e will be required reading for students and scholars of American politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dara Z. Strolovitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.21w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226777412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDara Z. Strolovitch\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44887281893491,"sku":"9780226777412","price":53.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_54600832-3cce-494e-8ebc-bfe7839008e1.jpg?v=1776873857","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/affirmative-advocacy-race-class-and-gender-in-interest-group-politics-9780226777412","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}