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The Blue Guitar : Political Representation and Community by Nancy L. Schwartz...
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- ISBN
- 9780226742373
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Democracy
- Item Width
- 7.5in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 190 Pages
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Americans conceive of the process of political representation as operating like a "transmission belt." Elections convey citizens' preferences unchanged into the legislative assembly and thereby allow them to participate, through their representatives, in the political affairs of the nation. This conception stands firmly in the tradition of liberal thought, as does much theory about political representation. In that tradition, government is defined primarily in terms of power, and elections are little more than the means by which that power is transferred from the people to their representatives. In The Blue Guitar (the title alludes to a poem by Wallace Stevens), Nancy L. Schwartz offers a radically new understanding of representation. As she sees it, representatives should be--and, in the past, have been--more than mere delegates or trustees of individual desires and interests and the process of representation more than the appropriation of power and control. Ideally, representation should transform both representative and citizen. Representatives should be caretakers of the community, not the watchdogs of special interest groups or individuals. Citizens in turn should feel increased personal responsibility for the whole that membership in the community entails. Moreover, representatives should serve as founders of their constituencies, constituting communities whose members value citizenship as an end in itself. In her analysis, Schwartz canvasses the political experience of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance city-states to discover the communitarian meaning of citizenship, and she draws on classical political theory from Plato to Rousseau and Hegel, on the political sociology of Marx and Weber, and on such contemporary theorists as Arendt and Pitkin. Schwartz also enters the controversy over whether local, state, and national legislators should be selected by district or at-large elections. After examining a set of key Supreme Court cases on voting rights and district elections, she proposes that representatives come from single-member geographic districts.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226742377
ISBN-13
9780226742373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
97226
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year
1988
Type
Textbook
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
190 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
7.5in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Jf1051.S37 1988
Publication Name
Blue Guitar : Political Representation and Community
Table of Content
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Transmission Belt Theory of Representation 3. Transmission Belt Theory in Practice 4. Sources of a Communitarian Theory of Citizenship 5. The Neglect of Representation in Classical Communitarian Theory 6. Towards a Theory of Political Constituency 7. Sources of a Communitarian Theory of Representation 8. Constitutive Representation Notes Index
Copyright Date
1988
Lccn
87-034043
Dewey Decimal
321.8
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
19
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