Women face multiple barriers during political recruitment and representational processes. Concomitantly, a burgeoning scholarship has revealed the existence of various obstacles to elected office faced by disabled people. While studies have examined intersections between gender, race class, we know little about how intersection disability gender shapes people’s experiences. This article provide...

To address the question on democratic legitimacy of communityor neighborhood-representing organizations, this paper was based on Pitkin’s differentiation of representation. Among her four semantic discernment of the term, the relationship among formalistic and descriptive was empirically analyzed. The main motivation for considering the quality of representativeness of a participatory vehicle w...