The Diversity Paradox
Political Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2012
256 pages
978-0-19-989173-3 (ISBN)
Description
In legislatures, group dynamics affect how the legislature operates, who is valued enough to play a critical decision-making role, and what voices matter in determining policy outcomes. An increase in a minority group's size within democratically-elected legislatures actually leads to the devaluation of individual minority group members. The authors assert that representative institutions such as legislatures face a 'diversity paradox': when the size of a minority group increases beyond mere 'tokenism' in representative institutions, it tends to create an unintended backlash toward the minority group's members that emanates from both majority and fellow minority group members. The inclusion of minority group voices in representative institutions is critical in a wide range of political decisions, ranging from legislative gender quotas in the new Iraqi constitution to attempts in the U.S. to increase minority representation through redistricting.
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Kristin Kanthak | George Krause
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Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America
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Kristin Kanthak | George Krause
The Diversity Paradox
Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America
Book
05/2012
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Diversity Dilemmas in Democratic Representation
- 2. Internal Valuation Within Political Organizations: Political Parties and Gender-based Group Dynamics in the U.S. House of Representatives
- 3. A Unified Theory of Colleague Valuation in Political Organizations
- 4. Testing the Unified Theory of Colleague Valuation in the U.S. House of Representatives
- 5. Coordination Dilemmas and The Critical Mass Problem: Differentiating Colleague Valuation Between Incumbents and Challengers in the U.S. Senate
- 6. Can Organizational Mechanisms Solve Minority Group Coordination Problems? Logic, Lessons, and Evidence from Legislative Caucuses in the American States
- 7. The Organizational Foundations of Democratic Representation
- Notes
- References
- Index
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