Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2019
320 pages
978-1-4744-4262-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Lisa Disch | Mathijs van de Sande | Nadia Urbinati
The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
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01/2019
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the end of representative politics?
- Part I The constructivist turn: Anglo-American and Continental intellectual genealogies
- 2 Rethinking democratic representation: eight theoretical issues and a postscript
- 3 Machiavelli against the Venice myth: a sixteenth-century dialogue on the nature of political representation
- 4 Power without representation is blind, representations without power are empty
- 5 Two regimes of the symbolic: radical democracy between Romanticism and structuralism
- 6 Political representation: the view from France
- 7 Democracy and representation
- Part II The constructivist turn: normative challenges
- 8 Representation as proposition: democratic representation after the constructivist turn
- 9 Don Alejandro's fantasy: radical democracy and the negative concept of representation
- 10 Pinning down representation
- 11 Representative constructivism's conundrum
- Part III Constructivist representation: critique and reproduction of power
- 12 Exploring the Semantics of Constructivist Representation
- 13 The improper politics of representation
- 14 The constructivist paradox: contemporary protest movements and (their) representation
- Bibliography
- Index
