According to Mill, one of the advocacies of the importance of political representation, "it is important that everyone of the governed have a voice in the government, because it can hardly be expected that those who have no voice will be unjustly postponed to those who have."1 After ...
The State party must also give minorities in Togo the means for betterrepresentation in publiclifeand positions of responsibility. daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 缔约国还必须想办法增加本国少数群体在公共生活和负责任职位中的代表性。
includingtherighttobe authentically represented in Parliament and local councils where minorities make up a significant proportion of the population, andtherighttoproportionalrepresentationinpublic services, government and local bodies. daccess-ods.un.org ...
The tension between local and national politics described in the previous section is essentially a struggle between interpretations of representation. Representation is a complex concept. It can mean paying careful attention to the concerns of constituents, understanding that representatives must act as the...
Representation, in government, method or process of enabling the citizenry, or some of them, to participate in the shaping of legislation and governmental policy through deputies chosen by them. The rationale of representative government is that in large
The rates of participation of racial minorities are generally lower than those of majority groups, and members of the working class vote less frequently than members of the middle class. In many countries, participation by young people is significantly lower than that of older people. The failure...
citizen needs—in particular, the needs of women, families, and ethnic and racial minorities. Relatedly,Mansbridge 2005states that descriptive representation by gender improves substantive outcomes for women. Recent research shows that women’s presence in the political realm is not merely an issue of...
As we (and others) have recommended in the past18(and summarised below), increasing the proportion of women and minorities in Indian science requires clearly earmarked resources and, importantly, the will and a strong commitment to equity from the leadership of Indian science agencies and universiti...
This, in turn, increases the risk that the predominately Pashtun population- already frustrated by its relatively low representation in the Government- will become marginalized MultiUn The relatively lower representation of women at non-headquarters locations may be partly attributed to the responsibili...
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