Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance
@article{Pitkin2004RepresentationAD, title={Representation and Democracy: Uneasy Alliance}, author={Hanna Fenichel Pitkin}, journal={Scandinavian Political Studies}, year={2004}, volume={27}, pages={335-342} }
The concept of ‘representation’ is puzzling not because it lacks a central definition, but because that definition implies a paradox (being present and yet not present) and is too general to help reconcile the word's many senses with their sometimes conflicting implications.
Representation has a problematic relationship with democracy, with which it is often thoughtlessly equated. The two ideas have different, even conflicting, origins. Democracy came from ancient Greece and was won through…
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