Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation
@inproceedings{Williams1998VoiceTA, title={Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation}, author={Melissa S. Williams}, year={1998} }
Does fair political representation for historically disadvantaged groups require their presence in legislative bodies? The intuition that women are best represented by women, and African-Americans by other African-Americans, has deep historical roots. Yet the conception of fair representation that prevails in American political culture and jurisprudence - what Melissa Williams calls "liberal representation" - concludes that the social identity of legislative representatives does not bear on… CONTINUE READING
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