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The concept of constituency : political representation, democratic legitimacy, and institutional design /
Every ten years United States congressional districts are drawn, physically constructing political representation based on where citizens live. Why is it done this way? Is territorial representation consistent with the broader normative ends of political representation for any large nation? And if n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The concept of constituency
- Justifications and the use of history
- The English and colonial origins of territorial constituencies in the United States
- Origins, Part 1 : what territorial representation was not meant to do
- Origins, Part 2 : territorial representation as an enabler of democratic values
- Territory reconsidered
- Legitimate representation and institutional design : for permanent, involuntary, heterogeneous constituencies
- Random constituencies
- Epilogue : the random constituency fifty years from now.