Representative Democracy in Flux

Introduction; Part I. The Imaginary Foundations of Representative Democracy; 1. Imaginaries of Representation: There and Back Again; 2. Programmatic Government Beyond Conceptual Distinctions; 3. Channeling Symbolic Political Representation through Law; Part II. Crisis, Fear and Their Impact on Representative Democracy; 4. The Global pandemic as a challenge to representative democracy; 5. Crisis, Fear, and Deliberation. Appeals to Pathos in the Covid-19 Debate in Dutch Parliament; 6. Fake News and Democracy: A Lesson from Covid-19 Pandemics; Part III. Agencification, Transnational Administrative Networks and the Future of Representative Democracy: Democratic-Technocratic (Dis)Balance and Trends Towards Technocracy, Bureaucracy and Expertocracy? 7. Administrative Legislative Policy in EU National Communities: Assessing Benefits and Risks Amidst the Globalization of Law; 8. The role of administration as political actor under the rule of law - the case of the European Strategy for Data; 9. Coherence in diversity? Exploring the institutional dynamic of enforcement networks in the EU Internal Market; Part IV. International, Transnational, and Global Dimensions of Representative Democracy; 10. Democracy and the Rights of Representation in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights; 11. Global democracy. Between People's Representation and Participation