Rowman & Littlefield International / ECPR Press
Pages: 186
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-78552-297-0 • Hardback • June 2019 • $100.00 • (£60.00)
978-1-78552-298-7 • eBook • June 2019 • $38.99 • (£24.95) (coming soon)
Claire Dupont is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies and the Political Science Department, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels.
Mihnea Tanasescu is an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Political Science Department, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels.
Acknowledgements
1.Introduction
Mihnea Tănăsescu and Claire Dupont
2.Electoral Representation
Kris Deschouwer
3.Exclusion and Representation: Women’s Struggle for Inclusion
Karen Celis
4.Representation and Accountability of the European Union in Global Governance Institutions
Sebastian Oberthür
5.Representing Persons: Evocative Representation
Mihnea Tănăsescu
6.Theorising Representation Fairness: Why We Need to Account for Social Groups
Eline Severs
7.Representing Future Generations
Claire Dupont
8.Understanding the Controversy of ‘Black Pete’ through the Lens of Symbolic Representation
Ilke Adam, Soumia Akachar, Karen Celis, Serena D’Agostino & Eline Severs
9.An Architecture for Hybrid Democracy in the EU: when Participation (en)counters Representation
Ferran Davesa & Jamal Shahin
10.Conclusions
Mihnea Tănăsescu and Claire Dupont
New ideas, practices and sites of political representation are challenging orthodox thinking in political science and in day-to-day politics. Featuring an impressive range of approaches and methods, the contributors to The Edges of Political Representation describe and interrogate these challenges—electoral, symbolic, transnational and generational among others. The book is a timely and sophisticated series of takes on the new frontiers of representation.
— Michael Saward, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
This collection is a timely and challenging contribution to thinking about representative democracy. The problem of incomplete representation is tackled throughout: however free and fair elections may be, they do not imply an equal and fair inclusion of intra-societal differences. This makes the book a must-read for all those who care for a just democracy.
— Hans Keman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam