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The conventional approach to political representation posits a relationship between representatives and represented built on authorisation and accountability between a principal and an agent through elections. Important though that is, my argument in this article will be that focusing exclusively on elections leaves a blind spot, namely the representation which is performed by actors outside of this traditional arena1 1. I would like to warmly thank the editors of this issue of Representation for their very constructive comments during the ECPR Joint Sessions (Helsinki, May 2007) which helped me to clarify my ideas. Thanks are also due to the anonymous reviewer for their relevant remarks. Finally, I am particularly grateful to Michael Saward for his sympathetic support and thoughtful suggestions on a previous version of this paper. . Specifically, I aim to show, through the case of Chile, that the ‘political’ activity of the institutionalised feminist organisations is political representation.2 2. My empirical data were gathered during my fieldwork in Chile. I conducted 20 semi‐directive and 13 directive interviews (in 2003 and 2005) with personalities from the Chilean women's policy agency (Servicio National de la Mujer, SERNAM), NGOs, universities, political parties and the Congress. The first set was related to the role of feminist NGOs in the politisation of the question of women's political representation. The second set focused on the interaction between feminist NGOs and SERNAM around several issues such as parity, violence, media and justice. I also had the opportunity to be part of the official delegation of the Minister‐President of the French Community of Belgium (in 2005) and to assist the ‘participation and women's rights’ department of SERNAM (in 2006), in the context of the cooperation agreement between Chile, the French Community of Belgium and the Walloon Region in the field of gender equality.
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