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The Diversity Paradox
Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America
Kristin Kanthak and George Krause
240 pages
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18 charts and graphs
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235x156mm
978-0-19-989174-0
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Paperback
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24 May 2012
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- Presents controversial arguments with dramatic implications for political organizations
- Introduces provoking new theories in regards to minority and majority group relations
Majority-minority group relations are central to the proper functioning of any organization, but these relationships are especially important in democratically-elected legislatures. In legislatures, for example, 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.
In The Diversity Paradox, George Krause and Kristin Kanthak explore the nature of these relationships, particularly their effect on both the valuation of minority group legislators and the ideological stability of the legislature in
general. Interestingly, they demonstrate that an increase in a minority group's size within a legislature actually leads to the devaluation of individual minority group members. They call this the 'diversity paradox': In fact, representative institutions such as legislatures face a 'diversity paradox': when the size of a minority group increases beyond mere 'tokenism' in representative institutions such as legislatures, it tends to create an unintended backlash toward the minority group's members that emanates from both majority and fellow minority group members. Representative institutions, therefore, can only fulfill the promise of adequate representation of minority group interests only by conquering this paradox. They can accomplish this through jointly attaining sufficient
'numbers' and overcoming the coordination problems those numbers create. This is no small task and no small issue: 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. The question of whether or not an increase in descriptive representation (numbers) has an impact on substantive representation (policy) is central to such efforts, and therefore The Diversity Paradox has important ramifications for all students interested in democratic representation.Readership: Students and scholars of political
science, political theory, democratic representation, majority-minority relations, diversity, group dynamics, representation, minority groups, legislatures, political organizations, tokenism, descriptive representation, substantive representation, and coordination problems.
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Kristin Kanthak, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, and George Krause, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Kristin Kanthak is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. George Krause is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Diversity Dilemmas in Democratic Representation
Chapter 2: Internal Valuation in Political Organizations:
Political Parties and Gender-Based Group Dynamics in the
U.S. House of Representatives
Chapter 3: A Unified Theory of Colleague Valuation in Political Organizations
Chapter 4: Testing the Unified Theory of Colleague Valuation in the
U.S. House of Representatives
Chapter 5: Coordination Dilemmas and the Critical Mass Problem:
Differentiating Colleague Valuation Between Incumbents and
Challengers in the U.S. Senate
Chapter 6: Can Organizational Mechanisms Solve Minority Group
Coordination Problems? Logic, Lessons, and Evidence from Legislative Caucuses in the American States
Chapter 7: The Organizational Foundations of Democratic Representation
References
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