Substantive and Descriptive Representati
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Marc Bühlmann; Antoinette Feh Widmer; Lisa Schädel
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Article
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2010
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Swiss Political Science Association
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German
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Representation is crucial for democracy: good representation helps to increase responsiveness, foster electoral turnout, increase political interest and include minorities. However, what good representation should be is debated. In this contribution we distinguish the substantive and the descriptive