Representation and Community in Western Democracies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780312229603
Subjects: Representative Government; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / Democracy; Europe; Local Government; Representative government and; Representative government and representation; United States
Description: "This book of critical essays explores new thinking and new evidence on the role of locally elected representatives in Western democracies. The book is topical in the light of the intense political and popular interest in the problems of making local government representative and responsive.

The contributors, drawn from the UK, USA, France, Denmark and Norway, deal with two principal themes - political recruitment and representativeness; and the processes of political representation - and highlight the dilemmas of open and accessible local government."--BOOK JACKET.