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Saward, Michael (2014) Shape-shifting representation. American Political Science Review, 108 (04). pp. 723-736. doi:10.1017/S0003055414000471 ISSN 0003-0554.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055414000471
Abstract
Shape-shifting representation is common in practice but largely shunned in theoretical and empirical analysis. This article resurrects, defines, and explores shape-shifting and closely linked concepts and practices such as shape-retaining. It generates new concepts of representative positioning and patterning in order to aid our understanding, and makes the case for placing this critical phenomenon front and center in the analysis of political representation. It examines crucial empirical and normative implications for our understanding of representation, including the argument that shape-shifting representation is not intrinsically undesirable. Developing the theory of shape-shifting representation can prompt a new level of analytical purchase on the challenge of explaining and evaluating representation's vitality and complexity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Representative government and representation | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | American Political Science Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0003-0554 | ||||||||
Official Date: | November 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 108 | ||||||||
Number: | 04 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 723-736 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0003055414000471 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 March 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 March 2016 |
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