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The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation / Nadia Urbinati, Lisa Disch, Mathijs van de Sande.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474442602
  • 9781474442626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.801 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of 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 sixteenthcentury 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
Summary: Explores the 'constructivist turn': political representation's reorientation toward the constitutive or mobilising aspects of mass democracyThis 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. Key FeaturesOffers comparative accounts of the genealogy of the constructivist turn in the rival intellectual traditions of continental democratic theory and Anglo-American deliberative democracyFeatures the first English translation of Claude Lefort’s essay 'Democracy and Representation'Critically examines the political implications of constructivist research for legitimating potentially undemocratic aspects of global politicsRe-examines democratic uprisings that have been dismissed as 'protest movements' from the constructivist position
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of 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 sixteenthcentury 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

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Explores the 'constructivist turn': political representation's reorientation toward the constitutive or mobilising aspects of mass democracyThis 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. Key FeaturesOffers comparative accounts of the genealogy of the constructivist turn in the rival intellectual traditions of continental democratic theory and Anglo-American deliberative democracyFeatures the first English translation of Claude Lefort’s essay 'Democracy and Representation'Critically examines the political implications of constructivist research for legitimating potentially undemocratic aspects of global politicsRe-examines democratic uprisings that have been dismissed as 'protest movements' from the constructivist position

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In English.

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