• DOI:10.2307/3089779
Corpus ID: 154537481

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}
}

Melissa S. Williams

Published 1998

Political Science

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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