(H/B) THE CONSTRUCTIVIST TURN IN POLITICAL REPRESENTATION

Παρουσίαση

Explores the 'constructivist turn': political representation's reorientation toward the constitutive or mobilising aspects of mass democracy
This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation; constituencies or groups exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1. Introduction: The End of Representative Politics
Lisa Disch
Section One
The Constructivist Turn: Anglo-American and Continental Intellectual Genealogies
2. Rethinking Representation: Eight Theoretical Issues and a Postscript
Dario Castiglione and Mark E. Warren
3. Machiavelli against the Venice Myth: The 16th Century Dialogue on the Nature of Political Representation
Jan Biba
4. Power without Representation is Blind, Representations without Power are Empty
Bernard Flynn
5. Two Regimes of the Symbolic: Radical Democracy Between Romanticism and Structuralism
Warren Breckman
6. Political Representation: The View From France
Raf Geenens
7. Democracy and Representation
Claude Lefort (translated by Greg Conti)
Section Two
The Constructivist Turn: Normative Challenges
8. Representation as Proposition: Democratic Representation after the Constructivist Turn
Samuel Hayat
9. Don Alejandro's Fantasy: On Representation and Radical Democracy
Oliver Marchart
10. Pinning Down Representation
Lasse Thomassen
11. Representative Constructivism's Conundrum
Nadia Urbinati
Section Three
Constructivist Representation: Critique and Reproduction of Power
12. Exploring the Semantics of Constructivist Representation
Alessandro Mulieri
13. The Improper Politics of Representation
Mark Devenney
14. The Constructivist Paradox: Contemporary Protest Movements and (their) Representation
Mathijs van de Sande.