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Title

Contested representation : challenges, shortcomings, and reforms / edited by Claudia Landwehr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg, Armin Schäfer, Johannes Gutenberg, University Mainz.

Publication

• Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Landwehr, Claudia
• Saalfeld, Thomas, 1960-
• Schäfer, Armin

Description

xviii, 347 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the past two decades, democratic institutions have faced a crisis of representation. From authoritarian backsliding in countries with recent democratic transformations, to severe challenges to established liberal democracies, the meaning of political representation and whether and when it succeeds has become highly debated. In response to an increasingly fraught political climate, Contested Representation brings together scholars from across the United States and Europe to critically assess the performance of representative institutions in Europe and North America. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this book looks at the viability of electoral institutions, the responsiveness of government to public preferences, alternative institutions for more inclusive democracy, and the political economy of populism. Chapters also address the broader normative question of how democratic institutions can be adapted to new conditions and challenges. Expertly researched and exceedingly timely, Contested Representation provides critical frameworks that highlight realistic pathways to democratic reform"--

Series Statement

SSRC anxieties of democracy

Uniform Title

SSRC anxieties of democracy.

Subject

• Representative government and representation > Cross-cultural studies
• Political participation > Cross-cultural studies
• Populism > Cross-cultural studies
• Political participation
• Populism
• Representative government and representation

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld, and Armin Schäfer -- Part I. The contested idea of political representation : 2. Contested representation: populist challenges, political support and the reform of democratic institutions / Claudia Landwehr -- 3. Deliberative minipublics and the populist conception of representation as embodiment / Cristina Lafont -- 4. An evolved representative democracy in a brave new world of ideological portest / Daniel Q. Gillion -- 5. Rising to the challenge? Political representation in the European Union / Guri Rosén -- 6. Progress and failure in achieving equal representation: understanding women's officeholding by party in the United States / Melody Crowder-Meyer -- Part II. Representation and responsiveness in unequal societies : 7. Reconsidering representation: how the same data can produce divergent conclusions about the quality of democratic responsiveness in the United States / Peter K. Enns -- 8. All about the middle class? (Un)equal responsiveness in social and education policy / Marius R. Busemeyer -- 9. Unequal representation and the right-wing populist vote in Europe / Svenja Hense and Armin Schäfer -- 10. What do voters think about the descriptive underrepresentation of the working class? / Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu -- Part III. Polarization, new cleavages, and shifts in democratic government : 11. Policy and politics in disjuncture in an age of secular stagnation / Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich -- 12. Polarization and the making and breaking of governments in European parliamentary democracies / Henning Bergmann and Thomas Saalfeld -- 13. Is populism a threat or a cause for representative democracy? Michael Zürn -- Part IV. Constitutional crisis and institutional reform : 14. Deliberative innovations and the (re-)inclusion of disadvantaged and underrepresented citizens / André Bächtiger and Vanessa Schwaiger -- 15. Electoral democracies and democratic innovations / Mark E. Warren.

Call Number

JFE 23-665

ISBN

• 9781009267724
• 1009267728
• 9781009267687
• 100926768X

LCCN

2022034552

OCLC

1342254693

Title

Contested representation : challenges, shortcomings, and reforms / edited by Claudia Landwehr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg, Armin Schäfer, Johannes Gutenberg, University Mainz.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SSRC anxieties of democracy

SSRC anxieties of democracy.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index.

Added Author

Landwehr, Claudia, editor.

Saalfeld, Thomas, 1960- editor.

Schäfer, Armin, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Contested representation New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009267694 (DLC) 2022034553

Research Call Number

JFE 23-665