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Orange is the traditional colour of the Christian democratic political ideology and most Christian democratic political parties, which are based on Catholic social teaching and/or neo-Calvinist theology. [citation needed] Christian democratic political parties came to prominence in Europe and the Americas after World War II.
Racial politics or race politics is the use of race, as a human categorization or hierarchical identifier, in political discourse, campaigns, or within the societal and cultural climate created by such practice. The phenomenon can involve the activity of political actors exploiting the issue of race to forward an agenda.
Gender identity politics is an approach that views politics, both in practice and as an academic discipline, as having a gendered nature and that gender is an identity that influences how people think. [64] Politics has become increasingly gender political as formal structures and informal 'rules of the game' have become gendered.
The 2020 Democratic Party platform endorsed the principle that no one should face discrimination based on their gender identity and sexual orientation. [14] It supports the Equality Act (United States) , anti-bullying prevention for LGBT youth, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 , and the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes ...
The study of gender and politics overlaps with the study of how other components of peoples' social identities interact with their political participation and experiences, with researchers particularly emphasizing that the interaction of gender and politics is intersectional and dependent on factors like peoples' race, class, and gender expression.
Representative John Bingham, the primary author of the Fourteenth Amendment, pushed for a wide-ranging ban on suffrage limitations, but a broader proposal banning voter restriction on the basis of "race, color, nativity, property, education, or religious beliefs" was rejected. [22] A proposal to specifically ban literacy tests was also rejected ...
Diversity within groups is a key concept in sociology and political science that refers to the degree of difference along socially significant identifying features among the members of a purposefully defined group, such as any group differences in racial or ethnic classifications, age, gender, religion, philosophy, politics, culture, language ...
The descriptive and symbolic views of political representation describe the ways in which political representatives "stand for" the people they represent. [2] Descriptive representatives "stand for" to the extent that they resemble, in their descriptive characteristics (e.g. race, gender, class etc.), the people they represent. [5]