We speak often of 'representative democracy' and we tend to regard it as the dominant form of government in the modern West. But who or what is represented by the electoral systems of the modern democratic state? Although we may be prone to regard contemporary democracies as embodying...

This paper focuses on the relevance of self-determination for indigenous political representation. It first considers arguments for separate political representation within shared government as a form of self-determination. It summarises the history and operation of the New Zealand/Aotearoa...