The attempt to ensure that governing bodies are representative of major demographic groups in proportions similar to their representation in the population at large is known as representation.

Symbolic representation

Explanation:

From the term itself, 'symbol' represents a belief, idea, an object, etc or for whatever it stands for.

Symbolic representation in governance is the basic feature of the representation of the political parties and deserves basic consideration when the motivation is to reexamine mainstream representation.

In this methodology, symbolic representation is a way of representing or standing for a particular social group like Catholics, women, etc.