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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... Membership : The Moral Claims of Marginalized Groups in Political Representation , " in Do We Need Minority Rights ? Conceptual Issues , ed . Juha Räikkä ( The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1996 ) , pp . 85–119 , © Kluwer Law International ...
... member district systems are inherently less likely than other electoral systems to result in the election of large numbers of women . Without electoral change , women's recent gains in representation may be quite insecure . There is ...
... member geographic districts as the principal mode of constituency definition will not provide fair representation for historically marginalized groups . As in any theory of representation , a groupbased conception of representational ...
... membership defines at least some of the constituencies that receive political representation . Here I argue that ... membership ; ( 2 ) membership in VOICE , TRUST , AND MEMORY 15 What Is a Marginalized Group?
... membership ; ( 2 ) membership in these groups is not usually experienced as voluntary ; ( 3 ) membership in these groups is not usually experienced as mutable ; and ( 4 ) generally , negative meanings are assigned to group identity by ...
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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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