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Political Representation
Suzanne Dovi; Wendy Salkin · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2026
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Hanna Pitkin distinguished formalistic (authorisation and accountability), descriptive, symbolic and substantive views of representation, and treated them as related views of one concept that share an underlying structure.
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