Judge, D and Leston-Bandeira, C (2018) The Institutional Representation of Parliament. Political Studies, 66 (1). pp. 154-172. ISSN 0032-3217
Abstract
Recent theoretical re-conceptualisations of political representation and contemporary empirical analyses of parliamentary representation have largely neglected the representation of parliaments as institutions. As a consequence, relatively little attention has been focused upon what is being communicated to citizens about parliaments, and upon the nature of the parliamentary institutions that citizens are expected to engage with. This is the neglected institutional dimension of parliamentary representation. Using official documents and interview data from 39 key actors in the Scottish, Westminster and European Parliaments, we analyse who act as ‘claim-makers’ on behalf of parliaments, the nature of these claims in different political contexts, and the symbolic representative prompts offered by the very architecture of parliaments. We identify a basic paradox of institutional representation in that those who ‘speak for’ (most loudly and most persistently) and ‘act for’ parliaments as institutions are not primarily elected representatives but rather non-elected officials.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Political Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Representation; Parliament; Symbolic representation; Representative claim-making |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2017 12:45 |
Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0032321717706901 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:111238 |