The future of representative democracy / edited by Sonia Alonso, John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel with the collaboration of Maria Fotou
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- 5399716
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
- xiv, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 9781107003569
- 1107003563
- 9780521177030
- 0521177030
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"The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and its future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms of present-day trends and past theories of representative democracy. Aware of the pressing need for clarifying key concepts and institutional trends, the volume aims to break down barriers among disciplines and to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The contributors emphasise that representative democracy and its future is a subject of pressing scholarly concern and public importance. Paying close attention to the unfinished, two-century-old relationship between democracy and representation, this book offers a fresh perspective on current problems and dilemmas of representative democracy and the possible future development of new forms of democratic representation"--
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- Introduction: rethinking the future of representative democracy / Sonia Alonso, John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel
- 1. Representative democracy and its critics / Nadia Urbinati
- 2. Representative democracy and the populist temptation / Klaus von Beyme
- 3. The wider canvas: representation and democracy in state and society / Michael Saward
- 4. Performance and deficits of present-day representation / Bernhard Wessels
- 5. Do parliaments have a future? / David Beetham
- 6. Engendering representative democracy / Drude Dahlerup
- 7. Representative democracy and the multinational demos / Sonia Alonso
- 8. Diagnosing and designing democracy in Europe / Philippe C. Schmitter
- 9. Monitory democracy? / John Keane
- 10. Representing nature / Robyn Eckersley
- 11. Democracy and representation beyond the nation state / Michael Zürn and Gregor Walter-Drop.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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