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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... questions . It was for this reason that I asked Sidney Verba , who so elegantly combines empirical inquiry with democratic theory , to serve as an additional adviser to my dissertation . It is a pleasure to thank him publicly for his ...
... question of how we are to evaluate competing conceptions of representational fairness : What constitutes a coherent theoretical account of fair legislative representation ? The chapter lays out certain requirements that any complete and ...
... question of what , in general , constitutes a coherent theoretical account of fair representation , chapter 2 offers an interpretation of the dominant theory of fair representation in the United States and explains why that theory ...
... question of whether representation is fair . In this theory , fair representation for marginalized groups does not depend on their members ' legislative presence ; it is guaranteed by the principle of “ one person , one vote , " in open ...
... question , Can liberal representation be modified to acknowledge the claims of historically marginalized groups to representation by their own members ? The answer is that while liberal representation can go some distance toward ...
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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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