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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... requires their presence in legislatures — is exceedingly difficult to sustain on theoretical grounds . Within the American legal and political tradition , " fair representation ” has been defined largely in terms of a highly ...
... fair representation of such groups requires their legislative presence , one must adduce something that members of these groups share without falling into the trap of essentialism . Further , VOICE , TRUST , AND MEMORY 5.
... requires the 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 ...
... requires their legislative presence . II . The Structure of the Argument Each of the following chapters constitutes a distinct part of the central argument of the book as a whole , which defends a group - based theory of fair ...
... require attention to the identity of those who sit in the legislature — indeed , it precludes it . In sum , then ... requires supplementation . Chapter 3 explores one strategy for supplementing liberal representation's proceduralist ...
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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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