Power, privilege and disadvantage: Intersectionality theory and political representation

Power, privilege and disadvantage: Intersectionality theory and political representation

This article critically reviews the extant literature on social group representation and clarifies the advantages of intersectionality theory for studying political representation. It argues that the merit of intersectionality theory can be found in its ontology of power. Intersectionality theory is...

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Veröffentlicht in:Politics (Manchester, England) England), 2016-11, Vol.36 (4), p.346-354
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