Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal RepresentationPrinceton University Press, 11. mai 2021 - 330 sider Does fair political representation for historically disadvantaged groups require their presence in legislative bodies? The intuition that women are best represented by women, and African-Americans by other African-Americans, has deep historical roots. Yet the conception of fair representation that prevails in American political culture and jurisprudence--what Melissa Williams calls "liberal representation"--concludes that the social identity of legislative representatives does not bear on their quality as representatives. Liberal representation's slogan, "one person, one vote," concludes that the outcome of the electoral and legislative process is fair, whatever it happens to be, so long as no voter is systematically excluded. Challenging this notion, Williams maintains that fair representation is powerfully affected by the identity of legislators and whether some of them are actually members of the historically marginalized groups that are most in need of protection in our society. |
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... give an expansive meaning to procedural fairness so as to prevent electoral structures from “ diluting ” minority voting strength ( and so effectively giving minorities ' votes less weight than those of White citizens ) . But as I show ...
... gives to citizens ' political aims . In the view I call “ representation as mediation , " I discuss three forms such mediation takes : the dynamics of legislative decision making , the nature of legislator - constituent relations , and ...
... give it the name “ liberal representation . ” Like other liberal doctrines of equality ( particularly the doctrine of equal opportunity ) , liberal representation's conception of fairness is deeply individualist and proceduralist . It ...
... give her voice its full weight . I have tried to follow through on that commitment by examining the claims to political representation made by and on behalf of members of marginalized groups at times when their status and rights as ...
... gives group members a shared interest in overcoming that marginalization , even though they may interpret this interest very differently.19 Group members also have divergent interests , since membership in a group is not the whole- or ...
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Liberal Equality and Liberal Representation | 57 |
Three | 83 |
Beyond Liberal Representation to Group | 102 |
Four | 116 |
Five | 149 |
Seven | 203 |
Conclusion | 236 |
Notes | 245 |
Bibliography | 303 |
Index | 319 |
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