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Rethinking Democratic Representation: Eight Theoretical Issues

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The article was published on 2006-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 83 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Representation (systemics).

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The Concept of Representation in Contemporary Democratic Theory

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review recent innovations within democratic theory, focusing especially on problems of fairness, constituency definition, deliberative political judgment, and new, nonelectoral forms of representation.
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Toward a Mobilization Conception of Democratic Representation

TL;DR: The dilemma of democratic competence as discussed by the authors, which emerges when researchers find their expectations regarding democratic responsiveness to be in conflict with their findings regarding the context dependency of individual preferences, is attributed to scholars' normative expectations rather than to deficiencies of mass democratic politics.
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民主的模式 = Models of democracy

赫尓徳, +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a history of classical and modern democracy, including the development of modern democracy and its history as a double-sided process of revolution, dictatorship, and dictatorship.
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Filling the gap? An analysis of non-governmental organizations responses to participation and representation deficits in global climate governance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the case of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to show how its constituency of environmental and development NGOs has responded to perceived representation and participation deficits in global climate policy-making.
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A trama da crítica democrática: da participação à representação e à accountability

TL;DR: The concept of accountability is atenta for deslocamentos conceituais ocorridos entre "representacao politica", "participacao" and "accountability" in the critica interna a democracia ao longo das ultimas decadas, bem como examina its ressignificacao reciproca na definicao de nova trama conceitual da critica democratica.
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Between Facts and Norms

TL;DR: In Between Facts and Norms as discussed by the authors, Jurgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in 1962.
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The Concept of Representation

TL;DR: The Problem of Thomas Hobbes Formalistic Views of Representation as discussed by the authors : "Standing For", Descriptive Representation "Standing for", Symbolic Representation, and Acting as Acting for: The Analogies The Mandate-Independence Controversy Representing Unattached Interests: Burke Representing People Who Have Interests.
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Inclusion and Democracy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of representation and social difference as a political resource for self-deterministic and self-representative political communication, and the limits of civil society and its limits.
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The concept of representation

TL;DR: The authors The Problem of Thomas Hobbes Formalistic views of Representation "Standing For": Descriptive Representation" standing for": Symbolic Representation Representing as "Acting For": The Analogies The Mandate-Independence Controversy Representing Unattached Interests: Burke Representing People Who Have Interests.
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Models of Democracy

David Held
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a history of classical and modern democracy, including the development of modern democracy and its history as a double-sided process of revolution, dictatorship, and dictatorship.