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

The visual perspective-taking exemplified by geometric gaze following, write Zeiträg and her colleagues, “is a form of functional representation, leading to behaviors that correspond to the fact that the other has a different perspective and that its gaze refers to an object.”

From Salon

"It’s not an anatomical structure, but a functional representation," Finkelstein says.

From The Verge

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

From Project Gutenberg

The constituency will enjoy this, because it will take much less time to read it than it would to listen to it, and they can argue out loud about the meaning of Early English phrases like Datum-line and Functional Representation.

From Project Gutenberg

In other words, the true alternative to functional representation in Parliament is functional devolution under the supreme authority of Parliament.

From Project Gutenberg