Book Reviews and Notices : Functional Representation. An Appeal to Supplement Political Represen tation. By FRITZ NOVA. (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company. 1950. Pp. vi, 99. $2.50.)
| Author | Homer Talbot |
| Published date | 01 March 1951 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591295100400140 |
| Date | 01 March 1951 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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restrictions
on
suffrage,
and
a
more
tolerant
attitude
on
the
part
of
the
European
minority
which
is
outnumbered
by
five
to
one
(Mallory,
1946
census).
We
need
further
studies
of
South
African
conditions
to
see
how
a
society
can
operate
more
effectively.
We
need
to
supplement
the
au-
thoritative
historical
studies
of
C.
W.
DeKiewiet
and
E.
A.
Walker,
but
this
book
is
not
recommended
as
filling
those
needs.
However,
if
noth.
ing
else,
the
volume
will
arouse
an
interest
in
further
study
of
United
Nations’
efforts
in
South
Africa,
and
perhaps
such
studies
will
bring
a
little
more
understanding
of
the
complex
problem
of
race
which
exists-
and
not
only
in
South
Africa.
Vassar
College.
LOUIS
MENAND,
III.
Functional
Representation.
An
Appeal
to
Supplement
Political
Represen-
tation.
By
FRITZ
NOVA.
(Dubuque,
Iowa:
Wm.
C.
Brown
Company.
1950.
Pp.
vi,
99.
$2.50.)
This
work,
based
largely
on
research
by
its
author
in
his
native
Germany
in
the
years
preceding
World
War
II,
is
an
account
of
the
theory
and
practice
in
Germany
and
Italy
of
the
use
of
occupational
groups
as
the
basis
of
political
representation
in
the
state;
a
recital
of
arguments
advanced
on
the
fallacy
of
such
representation
under
present
methods
of
electing
legislators;
and
a
plea
for
the
establishment
by
act
of
Congress
of
a
permanent
national
advisory
economic
council.
Such
a
council,
it is
urged,
should
be
nominated
by
&dquo;the
existing
national
functional
organi-
zations,&dquo;
appointed
by
the
President
and
confirmed
by
the
Senate.
A
sketch
of
the
rise
and
decline
in
Germany
of
representation
by
economic
interests,
and
a
record
and
evaluation
of
the
thirteen
years’
activities of
the
Economic
Council
of
the
Reich,
are
followed
by
an
account
of
Hitler’s
rejection
of
the
scheme
proposed
by
Othmar
Spann
of
a
decentralized
government
of
economic
corporativism.
The
final
dozen
pages
are,
in
effect,
a
brief
for
the
creation
of
what
the
author
refers
to
as
a
permanent,
national,
nonpolitical,
advisory
economic
council
to
supply
the
Executive
and
the
Congress
with
the
experience,
the
ideas,
and
the
recommendations
of
the
economic
interests
of
the
country.
.
While
the
Bibliography
contains
references
to
a
number
of
volumes
and
articles
on
proportional
representation
-
the
most
important
altema,
tive
to
representation
by
economic
classes,
in
the
struggle
to
gain
fair
and
authentic
representation
of
minorities
and
yet
assure
majority
control -
nowhere
does
the
author
contrast
or
compare
the
two
proposals:
he
ignores
proportional
representatation.
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