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The Politics of Presence

, 1995
1. From a Politics of Ideas to a Politics of Presence? 2. Political Equality and Fair Representation 3. Quotas for Women 4. Race-Conscious Districting in the USA 5. Canada and the Politics of Inclusion 6.
Anne Phillips
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Political representation

2015
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White attitudes about descriptive representation in the US: the roles of identity, discrimination, and linked fate

Body Politics, 2017
Many white Americans feel that whites are discriminated against, identify as white, and feel a sense of linked fate with whites. Scholars have studied these psychological connections to one's racial group among nonwhites, but little attention in ...
Deborah J. Schildkraut
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Executive dominance and the politics of quota representation in Uganda

, 2012
Quota policies securing the presence of marginalised groups in decision-making bodies have been adopted across sub-Saharan Africa. These policies are frequently understood through the lens of a pluralist perspective.
Ragnhild L. Muriaas, Vibeke Wang
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Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America

, 2015
Does it matter that working-class citizens are numerically underrepresented in political offices throughout the world? For decades, the conventional wisdom in comparative politics has been that it does not, that lawmakers from different classes think and

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Ecocriticism and the Politics of Representation

2013
This article examines the politics of representation in the context of ecocriticism. It addresses the question concerning the modes of critique and action that are adequate to describe and respond to the farcical cultural moment when environmental knowledge circulates so readily but is dissociated from any particular political project of social change.
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Men’s Political Representation

2018
In much research on gender and representation, the constraining factors for women’s political representation have served as a backdrop against which women’s activities are contextualized, rather than as a primary focus of research. Research explicitly focusing on men’s overrepresentation in politics does the opposite: it puts the reproduction of male ...
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THE BLIND CORNER OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION

Representation, 2012
Much of the literature on political representation provides empirical evidence that elections successfully link the policy preferences of citizens to the policy preferences of their representatives in parliament and to public policy. However, most of these studies are based on the congruence on the left–right dimension rather than on specific issues ...
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Representation, political

2004
texte en anglais; Les conseillers du Souverain, qui était le représentant "naturel" de ses peuples, lui ont peu à peu imposé leur autorité et sont devenus un Conseil souverain (suprématie parlementaire). Ils représentaient légitimement le peuple souverain jusqu'à ce que les intérêts économiques et sociaux, d'abord consultés, mettent à leur tour en ...
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A reply to ‘the politics of representation’

Anthropological Forum, 1990
(1990). A reply to ‘the politics of representation’. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 158-165.
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