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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... Institutions of Fair Representation I. Defining Constituencies II . Dynamics of Legislative Decision Making III . Legislator - Constituent Relations 205 221 227 233 IV . Summary : Sketch of a Fair System viii CONTENTS.
... relations , and the basis for aggregating citizens into representable constituencies . With respect to the first dimension of representation as mediation , I will argue that a concern for marginalized group representation should yield ...
... relations will yield revised judgments about the content of the category “ marginalized group . ” What , then , do members of marginalized groups share ? Most important , they share the experience of cultural and structural obstacles ...
... relations in civil society are undoubtedly more important in determining the shape of social hierarchy than anything government can do . If a substantial proportion of organizations in civil society incorporated principles of ...
... relation to the state is mediated in a number of ways , and any coherent theory of representation must give an account of the nature of these mediations . Moreover , and especially important for our purposes , a coherent theory of ...
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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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