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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... marginalized groups are chronically underrepresented in legislative bodies , citizens who are members of those groups are not fairly represented . The American electoral system reliably produces legislatures in which marginalized groups ...
... marginalized groups . If we turn to existing theories of representational fairness , however , we discover that the intuition with which I began my own inquiry — that fair representation for historically marginalized groups requires ...
... marginalized groups that can justify those intuitions . My aim in this book is to offer such a theory . I. Problems with Group - Based Views of Fair Representation When I first began thinking about representation , scholars were just ...
... marginalized groups , I conclude that what members of such groups share is the experience of marginalization and the distinctive perspective on matters of public policy that comes of that experience . The claim I defend in chapters 4 ...
... Marginalization Even where it is possible to overcome the challenge of electing “ authentic ” representatives for marginalized groups , a group's marginalization may simply be reproduced at the level of the legislature . In legislative ...
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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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