Affirmative Advocacy
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Affirmative Advocacy

Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

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Affirmative Advocacy

Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

About this book

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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Introduction
In June 2002, William “Hootie” Johnson, chair of the Augusta National Golf
Club in Augusta, Georgia, received an unexpected letter from Martha Burk,
then
chair
of
the
National
Council
of
Women’s
Organizations
(NCWO).
The
NCWO is the largest coalition of women’s groups in the United States, with
two
hundred
member
organizations
encompassing
more
than
six
million
members.
Established
in
1983
in
response
to
the
failure
to
ratify
the
Equal
Rights
Amendment
to
the
Constitution
of
the
United
States,
the
organiza-
tion
has
been
at
the
forefront
of
many
battles
over
women’s
rights
since
its
founding. Writing on behalf of this large and influential organization, Burk
urged Johnson to open his men-only golf club to women. Augusta soon would
be hosting the Masters Golf Tournament, an occasion that Burk hoped would
prompt
Johnson
to
adopt
a
more
inclusive
policy.
Many
of
the
sponsors
of
the
event,
she
suggested,
including
Coca-Cola,
IBM,
Citigroup,
and
Gen-
eral
Motors,
certainly
would
not
appreciate
the
publicity
that
would
result
were
she
to
call
attention
to
Augusta’s
current
discriminatory
practices.
For
his
part,
Johnson
did
not
appreciate
being
told
what
to
do,
much
less
Burk’s
thinly
veiled
threat
of
a
possible
NCWO-sponsored
boycott
of
the
tournament’s
sponsors.
Rather
than
trying
to
avoid
the
threatened
publicity
by
quietly
and
privately
negotiating
with
Burk,
Johnson
lashed
back
publicly
and
in
no
uncertain
terms,
stating
that
the
club
would
not

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  4. List of Cases
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 · Introduction
  7. 2 · Closer to a Pluralist Heaven?
  8. 3 · Intersectionality and Representation
  9. 4 · Trickle-Down Representation?
  10. 5 · Tyranny of the Minority? Institutional Targets and Advocacy Strategies
  11. 6 · Coalition and Collaboration among Advocacy Organizations
  12. 7 · Conclusion: Affirmative Advocacy
  13. Appendix A · Study Design: Methodology and Data Collection
  14. Appendix B · Survey Questionnaire
  15. Appendix C · Interview Protocol
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index