TY - JOUR
T1 - The institutional representation of parliament
AU - Judge, David
AU - Leston-Bandeira, Cristina
N1 - Judge, D & Leston-Bandeira, C 2017, 'The institutional representation of parliament' Political Studies, pp. 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/0032321717706901. Copyright © 2017 (The Authors). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
PY - 2018/1/30
Y1 - 2018/1/30
N2 - Recent theoretical reconceptualisations 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 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 intent' and claims associated with the architectural design of parliamentary buildings. 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.
AB - Recent theoretical reconceptualisations 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 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 intent' and claims associated with the architectural design of parliamentary buildings. 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.
KW - representation
KW - parliament
KW - representative claim-making
KW - symbolic representation
UR - https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/political-studies/journal202479
U2 - 10.1177/0032321717706901
DO - 10.1177/0032321717706901
M3 - Article
SN - 0032-3217
VL - 66
SP - 154
EP - 172
JO - Political Studies
JF - Political Studies
IS - 1
ER -