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Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking the Political Representative as Powerful Stranger
2008
Modern law review
This year's Chorley lecture examines certain theoretical and practical questions concerning political representation in constitutional democracies and advances three claims. (1) That electocracy (rule by elections) reduces the role of citizens to a series of discrete choice points, often shifting the actual moment of choice to the politician. (2) That a preoccupation with winner-take-all elections encourages representatives in the US to see themselves as powerful strangers with a proprietary
doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.2008.00679.x
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