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Arter, David. "Scottish Committee Activity Outside Edinburgh: Towards a Mobilized Small Democracy?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40949_index.html>

Arter, D. , 2005-09-01 "Scottish Committee Activity Outside Edinburgh: Towards a Mobilized Small Democracy?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40949_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, its committees have held over seventy formal meetings and a vastly greater number of informal meetings outside the parliament building in Edinburgh. Having traced the extent of the various forms of committee activity outside the capital, the paper explores the implications for representative democracy. It asks whether these peripatetic practices have contributed to increasing the amount of popular participation in the political process and to moving Scotland some way towards becoming a small, mobilized democracy. The focus is on the committee-civil society relationship and committees as linkage. Parliamentary committees are depicted as representing policy constituencies, each ‘committee constituency’ comprising a range of affected interests, both organised (mobilised) and non-mobilised actors. The paper juxtaposes two models of political representation – the ‘corporate democracy model’ and the ‘inclusive democracy model’ – with contrasting implications for the balance of influence within the ‘committee constituency’. Using data from committee meetings outside Edinburgh, it tests the hypothesis that the committees’ ‘extra-mural’ activity should be viewed as a counter-corporatist strategy legitimised by reference to the principle of inclusivity.

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