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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... presence projecting over my shoulder , a sometimes irksome but always salutary companion . Dennis Thompson also advised my dissertation and has continued to be an important source of insight and criticism for this and other work . One ...
... presence within legislative bodies ? Recent political events have brought greater attention to the idea that the legislative presence of marginalized groups is an important part of group members ' equality as citizens . Consider two ...
... presence of African Americans or Latinos . There is nothing in the procedural account of fairness with which one can rationally defend the claim that the fair representation of historically disadvantaged groups depends on the presence ...
... presence in legislative bodies seems at first glance to imply that members of such groups somehow share an identity of interests or concerns for which their representatives can advocate . Yet there is clearly a wide diversity of both ...
... presence of group members in legislative bodies in a proportion roughly comparable to their proportion of the population as a whole . No defensible claim for group representation can rest on assertions of the essential identity of women ...
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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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