For the People? Democratic Representation in America

Charles R. Beitz teaches political philosophy at Princeton University, where he has been director of the University Center for Human Values and the Program in Political Philosophy. He served previously as dean for academic affairs and professor of government at Bowdoin College and professor of political science at Swarthmore College. He was editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs for a decade. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim, MacArthur, and Rockefeller Foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Council on Education.

Henry E. Brady is Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley. He has served as president of the American Political Science Association and dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has written on public opinion and political participation, political methodology, Canadian and American elections, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and topics in public policy including higher education, social welfare, and voting systems.

Contributors:
Martin Gilens
Pamela S. Karlan
Jane Mansbridge

Preface

For the People? Democratic Representation and its Failures
Lecture 1. Intimations of failure
Lecture 2. Regulating rivalry

Commentaries
"Tanner Lecture Comments" by Martin Gilens
"Unrepresentative Democracy in America" by Pamela S. Karlan
"Systems, Dyads, and a Contingency Theory of Competition: A Citizen's View" by Jane Mansbridge
"Response to Commentators" by Charles R. Beitz

Index