Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 323 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780520340503
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0520340507
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311)
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Reprint der Paperback Edition 1972
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520021568
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520021563
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel, 1931 - 2023 The concept of representation Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1972 ISBN 9780520021563
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520021568
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Repräsentation
DOI:
10.1525/9780520340503
