representational

The real problem is the very structure of what we call democracy, which enables elites to interfere before elections, during elections and after elections, because we have a representational voting system.

Certainly, this representational role is a dimension of the presidency with which he has seemed at ease.

They tend to have a much harder time ascending the stratified ranks of culture and politics, becoming the published authors and elected officials who might provide representational equality.

He tried to use Euler’s circles to illustrate Boole’s algebra of truth-values, but Euler’s representational system would not quite do the trick.

That representational burden is a continually simmering undercurrent in “Young Woman and the Sea.”