Pettit, PhilipIan ShapiroSusan C. StokesElisabeth Jean WoodAlexander S. Kirshner2015-12-079780521128650http://hdl.handle.net/1885/28185Three metaphors have driven the notion of political representation. Pictorial representation has suggested that representatives ought to resemble and stand in for the represented; juridical representation that they ought to act for the represented; and theatrical representation that they ought to interpret and speak for the represented. The paper distinguishes the corresponding concepts of representation � simulative, agential and interpretive � and shows how they may apply with different kinds of representative and represented entities, individual and collective. It illustrates the use to which these distinctions may be put in a brief discussion of Washington and Westminster systems.application/pdfen-AU201010.1017/CBO9780511813146.0052020-12-27