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    Veil of influence: the legacy of John Rawls

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    Michael Saward looks at the influence of the work of John Rawl

    Liminal representation

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    After elaborating the idea of liminality and briefing defending an understanding of representation as practice, the chapter will focus on four distinctions often deployed to divide up and map conceptually the field of political representation. RepresentationтАЩs liminal character presses us to question the neatness and the realism of many such distinctions. For each of the four distinctions I focus on the transitional or intermediate nature of representation, and the consequences that follow for theoretical analysis. Finally, I show how these four contribute to a larger and more encompassing distinction between representative democracy and democratic representation, arguing that the former тАУoften the sole focus of debates on representation тАУis one (crucial) part of the latter

    Afterword : sovereign and critical grammars

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