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Chapter 14 - Essay Questions
1. This chapter considers several different strategies for empowering disadvantaged groups. How do these approaches fit together? Are they mutually exclusive, or can they be part of a broader program? If the former, why? If the latter, how might they be sequenced together? In other words, must one come before another or can they be pursued simultaneously?
2. Mala Htun argues that women’s political parties face difficulty in gaining traction because gender “cuts across” other social and political categories. Is this an insurmountable obstacle? What could someone trying to start a women’s party learn from Htun’s analysis? What are its basic strategic implications for that project?
3. Are social movements that aim to empower disadvantaged groups likely to be different from other social movements (such as, for example, the “pro-life movement” or social movement activity in support of gun control)? In what ways and how? What would you expect the key differences to be, and why?