Can someone please explain the four models of representation (delegate, partisan, trustee and mirror). Thank you - Parliamentary Education Office (2024)

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What are the four types of representation? ›

These 'trustees' have autonomy to deliberate and act as they see fit, in their own conscience even if it means going against the explicit desires of their constituents. By contrast, in the delegate model, the representative is expected to act strictly in accordance with the beliefs of their constituents.

Pitkin identifies at least four different views of representation: formalistic representation, descriptive representation, symbolic representation, and substantive representation.

In this model, constituents elect their representatives as delegates for their constituency. These delegates act only as a mouthpiece for the wishes of their constituency/state and have no autonomy from the constituency only the autonomy to vote for the actual representatives of the state.

Mirror representation is the idea that an elected body of representatives should reflect society's different groups in similar proportions to those that exist in the wider population. Examples of different groups could be people of different social, religious or ethnic backgrounds.

Representations include words, symbols, graphs, diagrams, tables, formulas, physical and virtual manipulatives, etc. They can be applied to math tools like the number line, a hundred chart, or a place value table.

Delegate model is the view that an elected representative should represent the opinions of his or her constituents. Trustee model representation is when a member of the house or senate follows his or her own conscience when deciding issue positions.

A delegate isn't supposed to stray from popular opinion within the group they represent. A “trustee,” by contrast, is entrusted to wield positional authority for the good of the group, drawing on the trustee's own best judgment.

Trustee: This is when an elected official will ultimately rely on their own judgement when making decisions. Politicians believe that their constituents have elected them because they trust their judgment to make the right decision to advance the interests of the nation.

What is the basic concept of representation? ›

Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements. Signs are arranged in order to form semantic constructions and express relations.

A representation V of a category D is a functor V : D → VectQ. To form a representation, one places a vector space on each object (•), and a linear map on each morphism (→). A map of representations consists of a vertical map for each object so that these maps commute with corresponding horizontal maps.

Constitutional democracy – governed by a constitution. Defensive democracy – a democracy that limits some rights and freedoms in order to protect its existence. Deliberative democracy – in which authentic deliberation, not only voting, is central to legitimate decision making.

Members of other parliamentary assemblies, such as the Continental Congress or the New York State Constitutional Convention. Members of a body charged with writing or revising a foundational or another basic governmental document (such as members of a constitutional convention are usually referred to as "delegates").

When an individual is elected within a delegative democracy, they are able to govern the country as they see fit. Some of these individuals include Indira Gandhi, Corazon Aquino, and Isabel Perón). The president is representative of the nation and their actions are said to represent the needs of the whole nation.

The abstract ideas behind the representation of certain symbols and characters is a choice made by the author to encourage readers to perceive the text in a particular way. The methods of representation include language and dialect, setting, symbolism, characters, and form and structure.

Corpus analysis We encoded the corpus at 5 levels of representation: (1) the utterance level, where each utterance was coded as one unit; (2) the word-level, where words were separately coded; (3) the syllable-level, where syllables were coded as separate units; (4) the onset/rime- level, where the onset of each ...

Furthermore, Hall (1997: 15) divides representation into three forms; (1) Reflective Representations, (2) Intensiveional Representations, and (3) Constructionist Representations.

As per the problem of style, there are different kinds of representations: scientific models, theories, measurement outcomes, images, graphs, diagrams, and linguistic assertions are all scientific representations, and even within these groups there can be considerable variation.