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Association: Name: WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION URL: http://www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/
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Stone, Peter. "The Lottery as a Means to Representation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, La Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar 08, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p176099_index.html>

Stone, P. , 2007-03-08 "The Lottery as a Means to Representation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, La Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p176099_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In their book A Citizen Legislature, Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips contend that random selection, or a lottery, should be used to select legislators for the U.S. House of Representatives. They do this because they believe in the virtues of descriptive representation, and a lottery is admirably suited to accomplish this goal, at least when the group to be selected by lot is reasonably large. Unfortunately, descriptive representation is largely (though perhaps not completely) of value as a means for accomplishing the representation of interests. Advocates of descriptive representation�including advocates of the lottery as a means to this goal, such as Callenbach and Phillips�fail to explain how this in fact takes place. Without a satisfactory theory of collective rationality, moreover, it will prove impossible to link descriptive representation with the representation of interests in a legislature.

Keeping Score: Parties, Interest Groups, and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives

Representing Interests - Standing-for or Acting-for? The Impact of Descriptive Characteristics of Legislators on Substantive and Symbolic Interest Representation Under Institutional Contraints. Comparing the US Congress and the German Bundestag.

Target Shopping: The Role of Target Population Selection in the Determination of Washington State Environmental Group Legislative Strategy