Representation

by J. Roland Pennock

Overview

This volume, offers the thoughts of twenty scholars on the theory, history, and practice of representation. Two developments make a new appraisal of this subject timely. One is the decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring representation to be democratic in the sense of affording every voter an equal voice in government. The other, that some governments that are not democratic, in the sense of having freely competitive political parties, are now,nevertheless, "representative."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351493536
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/08/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	332
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

J. Roland Pennock

Table of Contents

The Concept of Representation; 1: Political Representation: an Overview; 2: Practical Representation; 3: Commentary: The Paradox of Representation; 4: Commentary: Representation and the Problem of Identity; 5: Two Notes on Representation; Historical Discussion; 6: Modern and Medieval Representation; 7: An Augustan Debate: Notes on the History of the Idea of Representation; The Theory of Representation; 8: Electors and Representatives: A Contribution to the Theory of Representation; 9: Representation, Governmental Stability, and Decisional Effectiveness; Constitutional Decisions and the Theory of Representation; 10: Representation in Law and Equity; 11: Black on Representation: A Question; 12: Political Parties in the Normative Theory of Representation; 13: Standards for Representative Selection and Apportionment; 14: Representation Values and Reapportionment Practice: The Eschatology of “One-Man, One-Vote”; Weighted Voting and the Theory of Representation; 15: Weighted Voting: A Mathematical Analysis for Instrumental Judgments; 16: Weighted Voting and “One-Man, One-Vote”; Extra-Elective Representation; 17: The Bureaucracy as Representatives; Representation Under Noncompetitive Party Systems; 18: The Mechanism of Popular Activity in the Exercise of State Authority in People’s Poland; 19: Notes for a Theory of Nondemocratic Representation