The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups

ISBN-13: 9781316513576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Gause LaGina Gause

Opis

The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest.

Recenzje

'In this important book, Gause uses multiple methods and data to understand how collective action shapes American politics. She shows that who protests matters, and legislators are more responsive to low-resource protesters. Yet while protest can be a force for equality, Gause also reveals the lengths to which resource-poor groups must go to be represented. This book is a must-read for scholars of political representation and inequality.' Kris Miler, University of Maryland, and author of Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States

Spis treści

1. The Promise of Protest; 2. Costly Protest and political representation; 3. How Legislators perceive collective Action; 4. How the average Legislator responds; 5. The limits of costly Protest; 6. Costly protest in a digitized World; 7. The democratic value of costly Protest; 8. Appendices.