Representation and Democratic Theory

Representation and Democratic Theory, David Laycock, ed., Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, pp. 224 Debates over minority rights and identity theory are irreducibly connected to issues of representation and citizenship. But while discussions in the past decade have focused on the philosophical justifications for a discrete set of rights for cultural minorities, there have been fewer efforts made to understand the impact of this demand upon conceptions of representation per se .