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Jane Mansbridge's intellectual career is marked by field-shifting contributions to
democratic theory, feminist scholarship, political science methodology, and the
empirical study of social movements and direct democracy. Her work has fundamentally
challenged existing paradigms in both normative political theory and empirical
political science and launched new lines of scholarly inquiry on the most basic
questions of democratic equality, deliberation, collective action, and political
representation. Her three best-known books—Beyond Adversary
Democracy (1980), Why We Lost the ERA (1986) and
Beyond Self-Interest (1990a)—have become part of the political
science canon and remain staples on graduate course syllabi decades after their
publication. The importance of Mansbridge's work has been recognized by her
colleagues through a trifecta of major APSA awards: the Gladys M. Kammerer Award
(1987), the Victoria Schuck Award (1988), and, most recently, the James Madison
Award and Lecture (2011).

AbstractThe theoretical literature on representation tends to read the work of Edmund Burke as a defence of a functional-corporatist conception of society, in which the groups relevant for political representation are stable and objective economic "interests" whose cooperation in and contribution to the life of nation and empire are essential for the status of Britain as a pre-eminent commercial power. This article presents an alternative, contractarian Burke that emerges out of his defence of the interests of non-economic "descriptions" of citizens such as Irish Catholics, a Burke who offers us an illuminating perspective from which to assess the claims of historically marginalized groups in contemporary liberal democratic societies.