The Distinctive Political Status of Dissident Minorities
| Autor: | David Schraub |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050502 law
Minority group Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Writ 05 social sciences Ostracism Political status Criminology 0506 political science Politics Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Dissent Obligation 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Political Science Review. 114:963-975 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5943 0003-0554 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0003055420000659 |
| Popis: | “Dissident minorities” are members of marginalized groups who dissent from the consensus group position on matters seen as critical to their group’s collective liberation. This paper articulates the distinctive political status—powers, vulnerabilities, and obligations—of dissident minorities. Dissident minorities may be especially vulnerable to slurs or ostracism as “self-hating.” But they also can wield significant public influence by positioning themselves as exceptional and exemplary members of their group. Both the powers and vulnerabilities of dissident minorities, in turn, converge around the prospect of “tokenization”—the use of the dissident minority’s dissident opinion by majority group actors as a means of discharging a stipulated obligation to engage with the minority group writ large. While dissident minorities should be free to hold and advocate for their divergent positions in public spaces, they retain a distinctive obligation to not offer themselves out as adequate replacements for engagement with the broader group. |
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