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Representation in America: Some Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Tim Johnson, and Deliberative Engagement

Representation in America: Some Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Tim Johnson, and... A PEGS Journal VOL. 16 NO. 1 THE GOOD SOCIETY Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society "The art of governing well has to be learned." -- Walter Lippmann Ethan J. Leib and David L. Ponet Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously rejected representative democratic rather than fundamentally subjugating only when democracy. He thought that citizens living under representative representatives deliberatively engage their constituents. The duty political institutions are free, at best, one of deliberative engagement is generally Still, for the many who wish to cleave day a year: Election Day. After casting triggered merely by taking on the role of to the notion that representative their ballots, citizens are enslaved--and a representative. But it gains special democracy can be vindicated as a denuded of the very power and authority urgency when constituents speak clearly that is exercised in their names. on central matters of political concern. meaningful democracy in action, Delegation of decision-making to repreThis is not mere theory. In 21st century Rousseau's central question remains: America, the centuries' old question of sentatives was seen by Rousseau and How can citizens reconcile democracy the relationship between the governed and many that followed as servitude, albeit with representation? the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Good Society Penn State University Press

Representation in America: Some Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Tim Johnson, and Deliberative Engagement

The Good Society , Volume 16 (1) – May 23, 2007

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A PEGS Journal VOL. 16 NO. 1 THE GOOD SOCIETY Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society "The art of governing well has to be learned." -- Walter Lippmann Ethan J. Leib and David L. Ponet Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously rejected representative democratic rather than fundamentally subjugating only when democracy. He thought that citizens living under representative representatives deliberatively engage their constituents. The duty political institutions are free, at best, one of deliberative engagement is generally Still, for the many who wish to cleave day a year: Election Day. After casting triggered merely by taking on the role of to the notion that representative their ballots, citizens are enslaved--and a representative. But it gains special democracy can be vindicated as a denuded of the very power and authority urgency when constituents speak clearly that is exercised in their names. on central matters of political concern. meaningful democracy in action, Delegation of decision-making to repreThis is not mere theory. In 21st century Rousseau's central question remains: America, the centuries' old question of sentatives was seen by Rousseau and How can citizens reconcile democracy the relationship between the governed and many that followed as servitude, albeit with representation? the

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Published: May 23, 2007

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