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Representing People, Representing Nature, Representing the World

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2001
Problems of representation lie at the centre of recent experiments in deliberative democracy. The problems are not primarily social scientific questions concerning the statistical representiveness of small-scale deliberative institutions but normative questions about their political and ethical legitimacy.
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Do Representatives Represent?

The Journal of Politics, 1960
A LTHOUGH POLITICAL SCIENTISTS have devoted considerable attention to questions concerning the extent to which representatives in legislative bodies actually represent their constituents, there are few opportunities to determine by objective tests whether votes of legislators are consistent with the wishes of their constituents.
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The Representativeness Representative

2020
Abstract This case, involving a young male, focuses on one of the metaheuristics first described in the cognitive science literature: representativeness. Essentially, it is about pattern matching—one is more inclined to believe a patient is a member of a particular class the more features the patient manifests of that class.
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Do representatives represent?

National Municipal Review, 1927
AbstractA study of hte extent to whcih the opinions of the bembers of the Ohio legislature conform to the views of their ...
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Representing Ignorance

Social Philosophy and Policy, 2004
If we wish to assess the morality of elected officials, we must understand their function as our representatives and then infer how they can fulfill this function. I propose to treat the class of elected officials as a profession, so that their morality is a role morality and it is functionally determined.
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Worker Representatives

SSRN Electronic Journal
We study the descriptive and substantive representation of workers through worker representatives, focusing on the selection of German works council representatives and their impact on worker outcomes. Becoming a professional representative leads to substantial wage gains for the elected, concentrated among blue-collar workers.
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»Represent more, represent hard!«

2022
Luca * Jacqueline Rudolf widmet sich im Artikel »Represent more, represent hard!« dem Umgang mit Repräsentation und Partizipation, Identität und Diversität in theaterpädagogischen Inszenierungsformaten anhand von konkreten Beispielen. Als besonders relevant wird diese Verschränkung für eine theaterpädagogische Praxis mit partizipativem Anspruch ...
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Representing Grief

Representations, 1986
"WHERE DO WE FIND OURSELVES?" Emerson's "Experience" begins,' implicitly answering a question raised seven years earlier in and about "The American Scholar": "Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on his character, and his hopes?" (53). This time the question implies its own answer.
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Representativeness

American Politics Quarterly, 1984
Iowa caucus attenders and state convention delegates in 1980 were similar in their presidential preferences and political opinions and displayed patterns similar to those found in other studies of leaders and followers. However, Democratic leaders were slightly more representative of their followers on measures of candidate preference, which we ...
James L. Hutter, Steven E. Schier
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Represent more, represent hard!

2018
Den Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie bildete die Annahme, dass Reprasentation unumganglich ist, um eine staatliche souverane Ordnung zu fundieren. Sie bietet die formale Struktur, durch die ein Staat mit einem Volk verbunden werden kann – und diese Verbindung ist nicht nur fur einen demokratischen Staat, sondern fur Staatlichkeit uberhaupt zentral.
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