Dara Strolovitch is an

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political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

, currently Professor of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies,

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, and

Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

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. She studies the politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the context of intersectional societal inequality, and the representation of those who are marginalized in multiple overlapping ways.

Education and early career

Strolovitch attended

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, earning a BA in political science with a minor in women's studies in 1992. She attended

for graduate school, earning an MA in political science in 1998, an MPhil in political science in 2002, and a PhD in political science also in 2002. Between 2000 and 2001, she was a research fellow at

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. In 2001, Strolovitch became a professor of political science at the

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, before moving to Princeton University in 2013. She has been a visiting scholar at

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, and The

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. In 2021, she was hired by Yale University as a full professor.

Career

Strolovitch's first book, published in 2007, is called ''Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics''. Strolovitch uses a survey and interviews to study the

political representation Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens. This definition of political representation is consistent with a wide variety of vi ...

interest group Advocacy groups, also known as interest groups, special interest groups, lobbying groups or pressure groups use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and ultimately policy. They play an important role in the developm ...

s, with a theory of interest group effectiveness that builds on the idea of

intersectionality Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of adva ...

. The findings of the book include evidence that already advantaged groups are better represented by interest group politics than disadvantaged groups are, and that often interest groups focus more on the legislative and executive branches of the US government than they do on the judicial branch. In reviewing the book,

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wrote that "the empiricism is as strong or stronger than the best of the existing interest group studies". ''Affirmative Advocacy'' received multiple awards from caucuses of the

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, as well as an award from the

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, and excerpts have been used in American politics textbooks. Strolovitch also co-edited the ''CQ Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying'' with Burdett Loomis and Peter Francia, and she has a forthcoming book called ''When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and the Political Construction of Crisis & Non-Crisis''. Strolovitch is a member of the 2020-2024 editorial leadership of the

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, which is the most selective political science journal. She was also a founding associate editor of the ''Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics''. Strolovitch has written and been cited extensively in media outlets like ''

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'', '' Vox'', '' Mic'', and ''

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Selected works

* * * * Forthcoming

Selected awards

*2010 Best Paper Award, APSA section on Political Organizations and Parties *2016 Mansbridge Award, National Women's Caucus for Political Science *2018 Outstanding Career Award, Midwest Political Science Association Women's Caucus

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Strolovitch, Dara Living people Date of birth missing (living people) American women academics American women political scientists American political scientists Princeton University faculty University of Minnesota faculty Vassar College alumni Yale University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women