The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
Lisa Disch, Mathijs van de Sande, and Nadia Urbinati
Abstract
This is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive introduction and a critical exploration of the constructivist turn in political representation. Divided into three thematic parts, the 13 newly commissioned essays presented here develop constructivist turn as a central concept advancing the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation because constituencies, or groups, exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented. Complete with an original English translation of ‘Democracy and Representation’ by the French philosopher Claude Le ... More
This is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive introduction and a critical exploration of the constructivist turn in political representation. Divided into three thematic parts, the 13 newly commissioned essays presented here develop constructivist turn as a central concept advancing the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation because constituencies, or groups, exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented. Complete with an original English translation of ‘Democracy and Representation’ by the French philosopher Claude Lefort, this volume delivers a rich critical intervention in democratic theory.
Keywords:
Constructivist turn,
Political representation,
Representative Democracy,
Claude Lefort,
Democratic representation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474442602 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2019 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442602.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lisa Disch, editor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mathijs van de Sande, editor
Radboud University
Nadia Urbinati, editor
Columbia University
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