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Popular Representation from Above: On Recognizing the Distance Paradox
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 4615259
Author(s) Weber, Ralph
Author(s) at UniBasel Weber, Ralph
Year 2021
Title Popular Representation from Above: On Recognizing the Distance Paradox
Journal Philosophy East and West
Volume 71
Number 1
Pages / Article-Number 108-129
Abstract This article focuses on the paradox of distance that lies at the core of political representation. The recognition-that is, understanding and acknowledgment-that the representative has to be close enough to those represented and at the same time be unlike them is crucial for effective and good popular representation in practice and theory. Rejected here is the pure-but-passive mirror-conception of representation, which the author of this article believes is not what Anti-Federalists advocated. The author also refutes the ongoing attempts to reduce popular representation to an expression of the will of the people. This will result in a plastic representation that in fact fails to represent at all. Representation, I argue, is an active act that involves bonding with the represented and knowing their circumstances, but then also taking a distance: reflecting, imagining, and functioning as a check on government. Only such critical political representation will suffice to meet the demands of a democratically hedged shi conception of popular representation from above.
Publisher University of Hawaii Press im Project MUSE
ISSN/ISBN 0031-8221 ; 1529-1898
URL https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777891
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/81668/
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Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1353/pew.2021.0006
 
   

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