functional representation

American  

noun

Government.

1. representation in a governing body on the basis of social class or occupation.

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Example Sentences

But Mr. Cole is enormously concerned about whether the society which follows the revolution is to be run by state collectivism, by guilds or cooperative societies, by a democratic parliament or by functional representation.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

The fundamental danger of functional representation is that it reverses this principle, and impresses upon the representative the view that his trade is his politics.

From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various

The problem of organisation is very real, but it does not affect the necessity of functional representation and functional responsibility in the State.

From The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Figgis, Darrell