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  2. Political representation - Wikipedia

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    The politico model came about when theorists recognized that representatives rarely consistently act as just a delegate or just a trustee when representing their constituents. It is a hybrid of the two models discussed above and involves representatives acting as delegates and trustees, depending on the issue. [citation needed]

  3. Trustee model of representation - Wikipedia

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    This model was formulated by Edmund Burke [2] (1729–1797), an Irish MP and philosopher, who opposed the delegate model of representation. In the trustee model, Burke argued that his behavior in Parliament should be informed by his knowledge and experience, allowing him to serve the public interest. Essentially, a trustee considers an issue ...

  4. Delegate model of representation - Wikipedia

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    The delegate model of representation is a model of a representative democracy. In this model, constituents elect their representatives as delegates for their constituency . These delegates act only as a mouthpiece for the wishes of their constituency/state and have no autonomy from the constituency only the autonomy to vote for the actual ...

  5. Politico - Wikipedia

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    Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.Founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007, [4] it covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada, among others.

  6. Tammy Duckworth - Wikipedia

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    Ladda Tammy Duckworth [3] (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois since 2017.

  7. Delegate (American politics) - Wikipedia

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    Delegate is the title of a person elected to the United States House of Representatives to serve the interests of an organized United States territory, at present only overseas or the District of Columbia, but historically in most cases in a portion of North America as the precursor to one or more of the present states of the union.

  8. Proxy voting - Wikipedia

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    Numbers are the quantity of voters represented by each delegate, with the delegate included in the count. In delegated voting, the proxy is transitive and the transfer recursive. Put simply, the vote may be further delegated to the proxy's proxy, and so on. This is also called transitive proxy or delegate cascade. [103]

  9. Outline of government - Wikipedia

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    Trustee - Delegate - Partisan - Politico - Senator - Money Government publications. This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (January 2016) See also