In this interview, recorded during the ECPR annual conference at University College Dublin on 13 August 2024, Prof Suzanne Dovi (Arizona) discusses her article, ‘What’s Missing: A Typology of Political Absence,’ The Journal of Politics 2020 82(2): 559-571. She explains how understanding and properly evaluating representation requires attending not only to how representation makes groups present but also to how it makes groups absent.