Voice, Trust, and Memory : : Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation / / Melissa S. Williams.
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 p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Voice, Trust, and Memory
- 1. Representation as Mediation
- 2. Liberal Equality and Liberal Representation
- 3. The Supreme Court, Voting Rights, and Representation
- 4. Voice: Woman Suffrage and the Representation of "Woman's Point of View"
- 5. Trust: The Racial Divide and Black Rights during Reconstruction
- 6. Memory: The Claims of History in Group Recognition
- 7. The Institutions of Fair Representation
- Conclusion: Descriptive Representation with a Difference
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index