Affirmative Advocacy : Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics /
Strolovitch, Dara Z., author.
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, Strolo
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, Strolo
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-318) and index.

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