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Systemic Representation: Democracy, Deliberation, and Nonelectoral Representatives

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  • KUYPER, JONATHAN W.

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This article explores the relationship between non-electoral representatives and democratic legitimacy by combining the recent constructivist turn in political representation with systemic work in deliberative theory. Two core arguments are advanced. First, non-electoral representatives should be judged by their position in a wider democratic system. Second, deliberative democracy offers a productive toolkit by which to evaluate these agents. I develop a framework of systemic representation which depicts the elemental parts of a democratic system and assigns normative standards according to the space occupied. The framework gives priority of democratic analysis to the systemic level. This helps mitigate a central concern in the constructivist turn which suggests that representatives mobilize constituencies in ways that are susceptible to framing and manipulation. I engage in case-study analysis of the collapsed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to unpack the different spaces occupied by non-electoral representative and elucidate the varied democratic demands that hinge on this positioning.

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  • Kuyper, Jonathan W., 2016. "Systemic Representation: Democracy, Deliberation, and Nonelectoral Representatives," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 110(2), pages 308-324, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:110:y:2016:i:02:p:308-324_00
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    1. Petra Guasti & Brigitte Geissel, 2019. "Rethinking Representation: Representative Claims in Global Perspective," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 93-97.
    2. Viola Joschko & Luis Glaser, 2019. "A New Approach to Map and Quantify Representative Claims and Measure Their Validation: A Case Study Analysis," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 137-151.
    3. Petra Guasti & Brigitte Geissel, 2019. "Saward’s Concept of the Representative Claim Revisited: An Empirical Perspective," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 98-111.
    4. Fischer, Julia & Van de Bovenkamp, Hester M., 2019. "The challenge of democratic patient representation: Understanding the representation work of patient organizations through methodological triangulation," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 123(1), pages 109-114.

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