The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design

ISBN: 9780521057325 出版年：2005 页码：279 Andrew Rehfeld Cambridge University Press

Part I. The Concept of Constituency and Legitimate Political Representation: 1. Introduction: constituency, legitimacy, and political representation 2. The concept of constituency Part II. On the Silence of the Land: Territorial Constituencies in American History: 3. Justifications and the use of history 4. The English and Colonial origins of territorial constituencies in the United States 5. Territorial districts at the American Founding 6. Territorial representation as an enabler of democratic values Part III. Standards and Reform: 7. Territory reconsidered 8. On legitimate representation and a default position: permanent, involuntary, heterogeneous constituencies 9. The random constituency Epilogue: the random constituency 50 years from now.