Performance and deficits of present-day representation

The Future of Representative Democracy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 96-123

  Wessels, Bernhard ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511770883.005     Document Type: Chapter

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