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Good Symbolic Representation

Good Symbolic Representation: The Relevance of Inclusion by Emanuela Lombardo, Madrid Complutense University, and Petra Meier, University of Antwerp Defining good representation requires spelling out the normative criteria necessary to count as representative. According to Dovi (2007, 5), good […]

American Political Science Review

Elite Competition and State Capacity Development

Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from Post-Revolutionary Mexico by Francisco Garfias, University of California, San Diego How do states develop the ability to carry out public policies? To answer this question, I describe a […]

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Structuring Good Representation

Structuring Good Representation: Institutional Design and Elections in California by Sara Sadhwani, University of Southern California, and Jane Junn, University of Southern California In this article, we examine elections and representation within the context of recently enacted institutional reforms […]

American Political Science Review

Businesspeople in Elected Office

Businesspeople in Elected Office: Identifying Private Benefits from Firm-Level Returns by David Szakonyi, George Washington University Do businesspeople that win elected office use their positions to help their firms? Business leaders become politicians around the world, […]

APSA Annual Meeting

Good Representatives and Good Representation

Good Representatives and Good Representation by Karen Celis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Sarah Childs, Birkbeck, University of London This article should be read as an ongoing dialogue between Suzanne Dovi and ourselves about a common concern: the quality of […]

APSA Annual Meeting

Short Course: Women and Democracy in America, 1630-2018

Women and Democracy in America, 1630-2018 Eileen Botting 12:00pm – 4:00pm The Hannah Mather Crocker Society and The Wollstonecraft Philosophical Society are co-hosting an American Political Science Association Pre-Conference Short Course at the Massachusetts Historical […]