Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

by Dara Z. Strolovitch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226777413
• ISBN13: 9780226777412
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"