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Review of Pitkin's The Concept of Representation,
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This book arises out of Hannah Pitkin's doctoral dissertation and is considered by political scientists to be the gold standard in terms of a philosophical treatment of the subject. Pitkin covers the historical evolution of thinking about representation from the Greeks through the founding of the American republic highlighting diverse thinkers and politicians like Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and James Madison as well as more contemporary scholars like Robert Dahl and Charles Lindblom. For those wishing an empirical treatment of the subject, this is not the book for you. However, if you are interested in understanding the philosophical underpinnings of the American system of representation then there are few better books to begin your inquiry with than the Concept of Representation.
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Representing A Great Book,
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The previous reviewer was spot on, this is the gold standard when discussing representation. I cannot add much to the previous review in terms of praise. I mean the other reviewer is on, but what I can do is add substance. Pitkin offers four views of representation. They are the formalisitic, which stresses authorization and accountablitly; symbolic, which stresses a representative has some meaning to those that they are trying to represent; descriptive, which highlights the degree to which the representative matches the characteristics of those being represented; and substantive, which highlights what the representative does for those they claim to represent. This is a book of theory and each of these is detailed in a very understandable way, which makes this book of theory seem less like a tome you would want to avoid. Overall, a good book.
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A stunning work!,
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As a political scientist, this was a necessary read. Was fully satisfied and, often, stunned by the depth and clarity of thought Pitkin brings to the subject. Worth reading as a superb example of conceptual analysis, even if you're not specifically interested in the topic of representation.
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