''Representation'' is a quarterly

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covering

representative democracy Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy or electoral democracy, is a type of democracy where elected delegates represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies func ...

. The

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are Simona Guerra (University of Surrey) and Javier Sajuria (Queen Mary University of London). The journal was established in 1960 and is published by

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on behalf of the McDougall Trust. The Representation and Electoral Systems specialist section of the

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political scientists in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, it publishes four ...

has adopted this journal and provides it for free to its membership.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the publisher, the journal is abstracted and indexed in major

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such as

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and the Web of Science. As of 2023, Representation has an impact factor of 1.70. The SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) assigns it an SJR indicator of 0.633 and an h-index of 29.

Scope

The journal publishes research on

electoral systems An electoral or voting system is a set of rules used to determine the results of an election. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections may take place in business, nonprofit organizations and inf ...

, political representation, democratic theory, and other issues related to representative

democracy Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitiv ...

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