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100 1 a| Beitz, Charles R.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhH49xKd4Y73rw9MG6BT3.;

245 10 a| For the people?h| [electronic resource] :b| democratic representation in America /c| Charles R. Beitz ; with commentaries by Martin Gilens, Pamela S. Karlan, Jane Mansbridge ; edited and introduced by Henry E. Brady.;

246 30 a| Democratic representation in America;

260 a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2024];

300 a| xi, 234 pages ;c| 22 cm;

490 1 a| Berkeley Tanner lectures;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index.;

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520 a| "Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political extremism suggests. Unprecedented levels of elite polarization, severe partisan gerrymandering, weakened party institutions, easing of restrictions on campaign finance, and other forces-all in the context of rising levels of economic inequality-produce dysfunction that subverts healthy political competition. A gridlocked U.S. Congress offers few solutions to broadly recognized public problems. Legislation favors the interests of elites when they conflict with those of the majority. In his 2022 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Charles Beitz examines the narrative of dysfunction by reading the literature of political science as democratic theory. The narrative raises two questions. First, are symptoms documented by political scientists really failures? What norms of democratic representation do they infringe? This is a problem of diagnosis. Second, what would successful democratic representation look like? This is a problem of prescription. Beitz's book explores both. The literatures of political scientists, constitutional lawyers, and democratic theorists on norms of democratic representation tend to cross too seldom. They do not agree about the meaning of fair and effective representation. One might look to democratic theory for insight, but for the most part it has been too remote from political practice to illuminate the problems of America's recent institutional history. Beitz's lectures bring the theory of democratic representation into closer contact with its troubled American practice. Emphasizing the constructive role that competition can play in democratic politics, they aim to articulate systemic norms for fair and effective democratic representation through critical engagement with the findings of scholars who have studied it in the wild."--Provided by publisher.;

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For the people? democratic representation in America / Charles R. Beitz ; with commentaries by Martin Gilens, Pamela S. Karlan, Jane Mansbridge ; edited and introduced by Henry E. Brady.

Author/creator	Beitz, Charles R.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Description	xi, 234 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Democracy--United States.

Other author/creator	Mansbridge, Jane J. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwhBWbFmQGx73yVVvGbVC.
Other author/creator	Gilens, Martin. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMHJMf6Q4DMMMQpbFVJrC.
Other author/creator	Karlan, Pamela S. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkTbjY8qrVyyfBJhjMdcP.
Other author/creator	Brady, Henry E. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjCXqgrgbVDHxYYbbXfMP.
Other author/creator	Oxford University Press.
Portion of title	Democratic representation in America
Series	Berkeley Tanner lectures Berkeley Tanner lectures.
Contents	Introduction / Henry E. Brady -- For the people? Democratic representation in America. Preface and overview -- Lecture I: Intimations of failure / Charles R. Beitz -- Lecture II: Regulating rivalry / Charles R. Beitz -- Commentaries. The preference-policy link and representation / Martin Gilens -- Systems, dyads, and a contingency theory of competition: a citizen's view / Jane Mansbridge -- Unrepresentative democracy in America / Pamela S. Karlan -- Response. Reply to commentators: preference and policy, legitimacy, and countermajoritarianism / Charles R. Beitz.
Abstract	"Many scholars of American government believe representative democracy is failing more systematically than even the recent spectacle of political extremism suggests. Unprecedented levels of elite polarization, severe partisan gerrymandering, weakened party institutions, easing of restrictions on campaign finance, and other forces-all in the context of rising levels of economic inequality-produce dysfunction that subverts healthy political competition. A gridlocked U.S. Congress offers few solutions to broadly recognized public problems. Legislation favors the interests of elites when they conflict with those of the majority. In his 2022 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Charles Beitz examines the narrative of dysfunction by reading the literature of political science as democratic theory. The narrative raises two questions. First, are symptoms documented by political scientists really failures? What norms of democratic representation do they infringe? This is a problem of diagnosis. Second, what would successful democratic representation look like? This is a problem of prescription. Beitz's book explores both. The literatures of political scientists, constitutional lawyers, and democratic theorists on norms of democratic representation tend to cross too seldom. They do not agree about the meaning of fair and effective representation. One might look to democratic theory for insight, but for the most part it has been too remote from political practice to illuminate the problems of America's recent institutional history. Beitz's lectures bring the theory of democratic representation into closer contact with its troubled American practice. Emphasizing the constructive role that competition can play in democratic politics, they aim to articulate systemic norms for fair and effective democratic representation through critical engagement with the findings of scholars who have studied it in the wild."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2025421016
ISBN	9780197780435 (hardcover)
ISBN	0197780431 (hardcover)
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