Race, Gender, and Political Representation

Toward a More Intersectional Approach

Beth Reingold, Kerry L. Haynie, Kirsten Widner (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-750217-4 (ISBN)

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It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. How do race and gender affect who gets elected, as well as who is represented? What issues do elected representatives prioritize? Does diversity in representation make a difference?

Race, Gender, and Political Representation takes up the call to think about representation in the United States as intersectional, and it measures the extent to which political representation is simultaneously gendered and raced. Specifically, the book examines how race and gender interact to affect the election, behavior, and impact of all individuals. By putting women of color at the center of their analysis and re-evaluating traditional, "single-axis" approaches to studying the politics of race or gender, the authors demonstrate what an intersectional approach to identity politics can reveal. Drawing on original data on the presence, policy leadership, and policy impact of Black women and men, Latinas and Latinos, and White women and men in state legislative office in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, each chapter shows how the politics of race, gender, and representation are far more complex than recurring "Year of the Woman" frameworks suggest. An array of race-gender similarities and differences are evident in the experiences, activities, and accomplishments of these state legislators. Yet one thing is clear: the representation of those marginalized by multiple, intersecting systems of power and inequality is intricately bound to the representation of women of color.

Beth Reingold is Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Kerry L. Haynie is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Kirsten Widner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee.

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Political Geography of Descriptive Representation
Chapter 3: Conceptions of Group Interests and the Links between Descriptive and Substantive Representation
Chapter 4: Race-Gender Policy Leadership
Chapter 5: Explorations in Intersectional Policymaking
Chapter 6: Welfare Policy Outcomes: Comparing Single-Axis and Intersectional Approaches
Chapter 7: Conclusion
References
Appendix

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 239 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-750217-2 / 0197502172
ISBN-13	978-0-19-750217-4 / 9780197502174
Zustand	Neuware