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Community representatives: Representing the “community”?
Social Science & Medicine, 1998This paper takes as its starting point the apparent disjunction between the assumptions of the self-evidence of the meaning of community in major international declarations and strategies which promote community participation and the observation that meanings of "community" are a subject of extensive debate in literatures of social analysis and to some
R, Jewkes, A, Murcott
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Representing People, Representing Nature, Representing the World
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2001Problems 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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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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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
2020Abstract 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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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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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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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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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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