Bültmann & Gerriets
Voice, Trust, and Memory
Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation
von Melissa S. Williams
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-691-05738-5
Erschienen am 13.08.2000
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 229 mm [H] x 152 mm [B] x 21 mm [T]
Gewicht: 559 Gramm
Umfang: 344 Seiten

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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 their quality as representatives. Liberal representation's slogan, "one person, one vote," concludes that the outcome of the electoral and legislative process is fair, whatever it happens to be, so long as no voter is systematically excluded. Challenging this notion, Williams maintains that fair representation is powerfully affected by the identity of legislators and whether some of them are actually members of the historically marginalized groups that are most in need of protection in our society.
Williams argues first that the distinctive voice of these groups should be audible within the legislative process. Second, she holds that the self-representation of these groups is necessary to sustain their trust in democratic institutions. The memory of state-sponsored discrimination against these groups, together with ongoing patterns of inequality along group lines, provides both a reason to recognize group claims and a way of distinguishing stronger from weaker claims. The book closes by proposing institutions that can secure fair representation for marginalized groups without compromising principles of democratic freedom and equality.



Acknowledgments
Introduction: Voice, Trust, and Memory3
1Representation as Mediation23
2Liberal Equality and Liberal Representation57
3The Supreme Court, Voting Rights, and Representation83
4Voice: Woman Suffrage and the Representation of "Woman's Point of View"116
5Trust: The Racial Divide and Black Rights during Reconstruction149
6Memory: The Claims of History in Group Recognition176
7The Institutions of Fair Representation203
Conclusion: Descriptive Representation with a Difference238
Notes245
Bibliography303
Index319


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