Research Handbook on Political Representation

RECON Online Working …, 2009

In this paper we critically reassess the standard account of political representation, in order to question the mythical foundation of its premises and explain why it can no longer serve as an adequate explanatory framework in the modern political context. We argue that ...

2020

InTrasformazione: rivista di storia delle idee, 2013

Contributions to the History of Concepts, 2020

Representation is a major and multifaceted concept of modern politics. Through open and regular elections, it shields the democratic character of representative governments, compelling politicians to pursue the interests of their constituencies and become responsive to their demands. But since the concept of representation is so embedded in the day-to-day workings of democratic regimes, it has largely lost significant traces of its history that shed light on its political dawn. The instrumentalization of the concept by representative governments in order to assess their democratic legitimacy obfuscates its seminal ambiguities and the history of conflicts about its meaning and institutional functions.

Annual Review of Political Science, 2008

Contemporary Political Theory, 2023

A Critical Exchange on representation in contemporary politics and political theory with Nadia Urbinati, Lisa Disch, Lasse Thomassen and Monica Brito Vieira, inspired by Lisa Disch's book, Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)

British Journal of Political Science, 1999

2013

Political and economic internationalization and globalization, the rise of sub-national self-governing regions and spheres, governance replacing government and many related processes change the role and context of the nation-state, the protector of mass democracy. The concept of (substantive) representation, representation as 'acting for,' can help develop answers to the threat that this 'loss of polity' poses to equal and universal access to decision-making, i.e., the ideals behind mass democracy. Examining the reasons why the two most prominent conceptions of representation - substantive and descriptive - would be valuable, I argue that we can only make an uncontroversial case for substantive representation. I show that currently popular cures for 'loss of polity' cannot be construed as new versions of or alternatives for mass democracy. Finally, I discuss two ideal-types of more reasonable interpretations of the ideals behind mass democracy.

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