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Concept of Constituency

Name: Concept of Constituency
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521057325
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Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design

Autor: Andrew Rehfeld

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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In virtually every democratic nation in the world, political representation is defined by where citi...

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Autor

Andrew Rehfeld

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2008

Pagini

280

EAN

9780521057325

ISBN

0521057329

Enbook ID

02020145

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

428

Dimensiuni

234 x 157 x 22

Descriere completă

In virtually every democratic nation in the world, political representation is defined by where citizens live. In the United States, for example, Congressional Districts are drawn every 10 years as lines on a map. Why do democratic governments define political representation this way? Are territorial electoral constituencies commensurate with basic principles of democratic legitimacy? And why might our commitments to these principles lead us to endorse a radical alternative: randomly assigning citizens to permanent, single-member electoral constituencies that each looks like the nation they collectively represent? Using the case of the founding period of the United States as an illustration, and drawing from classic sources in Western political theory, this book describes the conceptual, historical, and normative features of the electoral constituency. As an institution conceptually separate from the casting of votes, the electoral constituency is little studied. Its historical origins are often incorrectly described. And as a normative matter, the constituency is almost completely ignored. Raising these conceptual, historical and normative issues, the argument culminates with a novel thought experiment of imagining how politics might change under randomized, permanent, national electoral constituencies. By focusing on how citizens are formally defined for the purpose of political representation, The Concept of Constituency thus offers a novel approach to the central problems of political representation, democratic legitimacy, and institutional design.