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The concept of representation.
LIBRA JF1051 .P5 1972
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel.
- Series:
- Campus (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 75.
- Campus ; 75
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Representative government and representation.
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
- Local Subjects:
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 323 pages 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972 [©1967]
- Summary:
- This book arises out of Hannah Pitkin's doctoral dissertation and is considered by political scientists to be the gold standard in terms of a philosophical treatment of the subject. Pitkin covers the historical evolution of thinking about representation from the Greeks through the founding of the American republic highlighting diverse thinkers and politicians like Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and James Madison as well as more contemporary scholars like Robert Dahl and Charles Lindblom.
- Contents:
- 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: Liberalism
- Political Representation
- Notes:
- First Paperback Edition.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311).
- ISBN:
- 0520021568
- 9780520021563
- OCLC:
- 939534
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