Shape-Shifting Representation
Shape-Shifting Representation
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变形表示
DOI：
10.1017/s0003055414000471
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
M. Saward
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作者：
M. Saward
变形表征在实践中很常见，但在理论和实证分析中很大程度上被回避。本文复活，定义和探索形状变化和密切相关的概念和实践，如形状保持。它产生了代表定位和模式化的新概念，以帮助我们理解，并提出了将这一关键现象置于政治代表分析的前沿和中心的理由。它探讨了至关重要的经验和规范的影响，我们的代表性的理解，包括形状变化的代表性，并不是本质上不可取的论点。发展变形表征理论，可以在解释和评价表征的生命力和复杂性的挑战上推动分析购买的新水平。
Shape-shifting representation is common in practice but largely shunned in theoretical and empirical analysis. This article resurrects, defines, and explores shape-shifting and closely linked concepts and practices such as shape-retaining. It generates new concepts of representative positioning and patterning in order to aid our understanding, and makes the case for placing this critical phenomenon front and center in the analysis of political representation. It examines crucial empirical and normative implications for our understanding of representation, including the argument that shape-shifting representation is not intrinsically undesirable. Developing the theory of shape-shifting representation can prompt a new level of analytical purchase on the challenge of explaining and evaluating representation's vitality and complexity.