Political Representation: Roles, representatives and the represented

Political Representation: Roles, representatives and the represented
ISBN-10
1317353153
ISBN-13
9781317353157
Series
Political Representation
Category
Political Science
Pages
229
Language
English
Published
2016-04-14
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Marc Bühlmann, Jan Fivaz

Description

In an ideal democracy, representatives would entirely reflect citizens’ views, preferences and wishes in their legislative work. However, real-life democracies do not meet this ideal and citizens’ policy preferences and priorities are mirrored only inadequately. This book provides new insights on political representation. It is guided by three questions: what roles should representatives play? Who is actually or should be represented? How are the representatives (or how should they be) connected with the represented? Containing contributions from the perspectives of political theory and philosophy, as well as quantitative empirical studies, the volume demonstrates the need to adapt these established questions to new political realities. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political representation and parties, political theory, democratic theory, political philosophy and comparative politics.

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