Panic in the Streets—Pandemic and Protests: A Manifestation of a Failure to Achieve Democratic Ideals

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Katner ◽  
Kari Brisolara ◽  
Philip Katner ◽  
Andrew Jacoby ◽  
Peggy Honore
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Sustainable Economy ◽  
Democratic Ideals

America is at a critical crossroads in history as the COVID-19 pandemic expands. We argue that the failure to respond effectively to the pandemic stems from the nation’s protracted divergence from the democratic ideals, we purport to value. Structural racism and class-based political and economic inequity are sustained through the failings of the nation’s democratic institutions and processes. The situation has, in turn, fostered further inequity and undermined science, facts, and evidence in the name of economic and political interests, which in turn has encouraged the spread of the pandemic, exacerbated health disparities, and escalated citizen tensions. We present a broad vision of reforms needed to achieve democratic ideals which we believe is the most important first step to achieving true political representation, achieving a resilient and sustainable economy, and fostering the health of vulnerable communities, workers, and the planet.

scholarly journals Engineering Solutions to COVID-19 and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda A. Barabino
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
Design Skills

AbstractThe role of engineers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the elimination of health disparities, while not always visible, has important implications for the attainment of impactful solutions. The design skills, systems approach, and innovative mindset that engineers bring all have the potential to combat crises in novel and impactful ways. When a disparities lens is applied, a lens that views gaps in access, resources, and care, the engineering solutions are bound to be more robust and equitable. The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the Black community and other communities of color is linked to inequities in health rooted in a centuries long structural racism. Engineers working collaboratively with physicians and healthcare providers are poised to close equity gaps and strengthen the collective response to COVID-19 and future pandemics.

Naming the Problem: Publishing Trends within in Urology on Race, Health Disparities and Structural Racism

Urology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrien N. Bernstein ◽  
Ruchika Talwar ◽  
Cheyenne Williams ◽  
Andres Correa ◽  
Brandon Mahal
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Structural Racism

4. Democracy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Christiano
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
James Buchanan ◽  
Joseph Schumpeter ◽  
Gordon Tullock ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
Theory Of Democracy

This chapter examines various conceptions of the normative grounds of democracy. After some preliminaries, it discusses considerations that favour and disfavour democracy from the perspective of instrumentalism. It then reviews some arguments for the intrinsic value of democracy and goes on to analyse one of the most fundamental challenges that a theory of democracy must face: the problem of citizenship. It also explains some of the institutional prerequisites of democratic institutions if they are to meet the challenge of citizenship. Finally, it presents a case study on deliberative polling as a way of realizing democratic ideals, along with Key Thinkers boxes featuring Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Dahl, James Buchanan, and Gordon Tullock.

Health Disparities in Black Patients with Severe Mental Illness and the Role of Structural Racism

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 483-488
Author(s):  
Uzoamaka Asonye ◽  
Nicholas Apping ◽  
Leonardo V. Lopez ◽  
Dennis M. Popeo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Black Patients

Structural Racism and Health Disparities

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruqaiijah Yearby
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Racial Health Disparities ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Racial Inequalities ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Government

The government recognizes that social factors cause racial inequalities in access to resources and opportunities that result in racial health disparities. However, this recognition fails to acknowledge the root cause of these racial inequalities: structural racism. As a result, racial health disparities persist.

scholarly journals Structural Racism: A Call to Action for Health and Health Disparities Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Suppl) ◽  
pp. 285-288
Author(s):  
Naomi Priest ◽  
David R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Call To Action

Ethn Dis. 2021;31(Suppl 1):285-288; doi:10.18865/ed.31.S1.285

Centripetal Democracy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Lacey
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Novel Theory ◽  
System Part ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
The Eu

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct democratic voting opportunities are emphasized on this model. There is, however, a strain of thought predominant in political theory that doubts the democratic capacities of political systems constituted by multiple public spheres. This view is referred to as the lingua franca thesis on sustainable democratic systems (LFT). Inadequate democratic institutions and acute demands to divide the political system (through devolution or secession), are predicted by this thesis. By combining an original normative democratic theory with a comparative analysis of how Belgium and Switzerland have variously managed to sustain themselves as multilingual democracies, this book identifies the main institutional features of a democratically legitimate European Union (EU) and the conditions required to bring it about. Part I presents a novel theory of democratic legitimacy and political identity formation on which subsequent analyses are based. Part II defines the EU as a demoi-cracy and provides a thorough democratic assessment of this political system. Part III explains why Belgium has largely succumbed to the centrifugal logic predicted by the LFT, while Switzerland apparently defies this logic. Part IV presents a model of centripetal democracy for the EU, one that would greatly reduce its democratic deficit and help to ensure that this political system does not succumb to the centrifugal forces expected by the LFT.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
Beth Reingold
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many

The concluding chapter summarizes the main findings and highlights the book’s contributions to the study of gender, race, and representation and the development of intersectionality as an analytic framework. It reviews, chapter by chapter, the many ways in which the election, activity, and impact of legislative women of color matter, not just for women and minorities, but especially for those situated at the intersections of multiple forms of disempowerment and misrepresentation. Examining politics from the perspective of women of color, this book demonstrates the many complex ways race and gender together shape democratic institutions and the representational opportunities and challenges they present. Little of what the book reveals, however, would have been possible without the critical intersectional approach informing it. Thus, Chapter 7 concludes with a call for more intersectional approaches to investigating questions, both old and new, about political representation and categories of difference.

Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities

2022 ◽  
pp. 002214652110661
Author(s):  
Nick Graetz ◽  
Courtney E. Boen ◽  
Michael H. Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Racial Health Disparities ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Regression Estimators ◽  
Counterfactual Approach ◽  
Conventional Regression

Quantitative studies of racial health disparities often use static measures of self-reported race and conventional regression estimators, which critics argue is inconsistent with social-constructivist theories of race, racialization, and racism. We demonstrate an alternative counterfactual approach to explain how multiple racialized systems dynamically shape health over time, examining racial inequities in cardiometabolic risk in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. This framework accounts for the dynamics of time-varying confounding and mediation that is required in operationalizing a “race” variable as part of a social process ( racism) rather than a separable, individual characteristic. We decompose the observed disparity into three types of effects: a controlled direct effect (“unobserved racism”), proportions attributable to interaction (“racial discrimination”), and pure indirect effects (“emergent discrimination”). We discuss the limitations of counterfactual approaches while highlighting how they can be combined with critical theories to quantify how interlocking systems produce racial health inequities.

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