Michael Saward

The Representative Claim

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Representative Claim is set to transform our core assumptions about what representation is and can be. At a time when political representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book provides a timely and critical corrective to conventional wisdom on the present and potential future of representative democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780199579389
• ISBN-10: 0199579385
• Artikelnr.: 29925474

Autorenporträt

Michael Saward is Professor of Politics at the Open University. He has published a wide range of books and articles on the idea of democracy, new forms of representation, green political theory, British politics, and the changing structure of states. At the Open University he has led and participated in the making of a new generation of multi-media politics undergraduate courses, and has commented regularly in the broadcast media.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Remainders and opportunities: recent theories of political representation
2: Mapping the representative claim
3: Variations and resources
4: The elected and the unelected
5: Debates and interventions
6: Representation, legitimacy and democracy
Bibliography
Index