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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jack H. Nagel and Rogers M. Smith Klappentext Jack H. Nagel is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Descriptive Analysis of Power and Participation. Rogers M. Smith is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is editor of Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs and coeditor of Varieties of Citizenship and Sovereignty, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. "Bringing together work from an impressive array of scholars, this excellent volume forces us to examine the deficiencies of current democratic practice and helps us envision new ways of addressing them by rethinking representation." -Keena Lipsitz, Queens College, CUNY Zusammenfassung Featuring twelve essays that engage with national! provincial! and municipal governments across three continents! Representation examines the core elements and challenges of fair! effective political institutions! providing an invaluable roadmap to better democratic representation in the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Multiplying Challenges of Modern Representation —Rogers M. Smith and Jack H. Nagel I. REPRESENTATION THROUGH ELECTIONS Chapter 1. Evaluating U.S. Electoral Institutions in Comparative Perspective —André Blais Chapter 2. Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic? —Dennis F. Thompson Chapter 3. Barriers to Voting in the Twenty-First Century —Alexander Keyssar Chapter 4. Uneven Democracy: Turnout, Minority Interests, and Local Government Spending —Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine Chapter 5. Fairness and Bias in Electoral Systems —Anthony McGann Chapter 6. Political Party Organizations, Civic Representation, and Participation —Georgia Kernell II. REPRESENTATION BEYOND ELECTIONS Chapter 7. The Paradox of Voting—for Republicans: Economic Inequality, Political Organization, and the American Voter —Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson Chapter 8. A Democratic Balance: Bureaucracy, Political Parties, and Political Representation —Pradeep Chhibber and Susan L. Ostermann Chapter 9. The Closing of the Frontier: Political Blogs, the 2008 Election, and the Online Public Sphere —Matthew Hindman Chapter 10. The Technological Basis of Organizational Membership: Representation of Interests in the New Media Age —Dave Karpf Chapter 11. The Principle of Affected Interests: An Interpretation and Defense —Archon Fung Chapter 12. Citizen Representatives —Mark E. Warren Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
