Anne Phillips on Political Representation

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Anne Phillips on Political Representation
Sun Nov 16 17:42:00 EST 2008

Political representation in a democracy doesn't necessarily reflect the variety of people within a society. Most noticeably, there is a much lower percentage of women acting as representatives than there is in the wider population. Does this matter? Anne Phillips believes it does. She explains why in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. External site

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