NON-ELECTORAL POLITICAL REPRESENTATION: EXPANDING DISCURSIVE DOMAINS
This article investigates the problem of legitimacy of non-electoral representation, and attempts to highlight the discursive dynamics in such a process. I argue that various forms of non-electoral representation overlap and may conflict with each other throughout society, but it is
mainly in the representative claimants' discursive interaction that the generation of legitimacy should be sought. I contend that conceiving representation from a system-wide perspective, with attention to the multiple actors, sites and means to communication and deliberation, can sharpen
our perception of a dynamic capacity for self-correction of representative claims.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 November 2012
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