Voice, Trust, and Memory - Couverture souple

Williams, Melissa S.

 
9780691057385: Voice, Trust, and Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691057389 ISBN 13 : 9780691057385
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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. Williams argues first that the distinctive voice of these groups should be audible within the legislative process. Second, she holds that the self-representation of these groups is necessary to sustain their trust in democratic institutions. The memory of state-sponsored discrimination against these groups, together with ongoing patterns of inequality along group lines, provides both a reason to recognize group claims and a way of distinguishing stronger from weaker claims. The book closes by proposing institutions that can secure fair representation for marginalized groups without compromising principles of democratic freedom and equality.

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À propos de l?auteur

Melissa S. Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691057389
ISBN 13 
9780691057385
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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