#+title: problem of representation
- tags :: [[file:20210312164855-role_of_government.org][role of government]]

When it comes to the state, representation seems to be a persistent problem. In
the [[file:20210330201641-united_states.org][United States]], the fact that many national and state-level politicians are
white men is a persistent issue.

Also in the US, there is also the question of land representation. The [[file:20210330201741-electoral_college.org][Electoral
College]] was set up to make it so that mostly agrarian economies were just as
powerful in government as non-agrarian economies (and subsequently to maintain
the institution of [[file:20200716141014-slavery.org][slavery]]).

Within the [[file:20200706092530-german_social_democratic_party.org][SPD]] there were kind of similar issues, where mostly industrial
working class people were represented within the party. This minority faction
was able to put forward the [[file:20210330202208-peasant_question.org][peasant question]] to the national party.

These issues bring up some serious questions:
- Should politics simply be majoritarian or should minority interests be just as
  represented?
- If politics shouldn't just be majoritarian, how do you effectively handle
  representation of minorities with as much weight as the majority?