The Politics of Representation in the Global Age: Identification, Mobilization, and Adjudication - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110761189X ISBN 13: 9781107611894

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

How has the process of political representation changed in the era of globalization? The representation of interests is at the heart of democracy, but how is it that some interests secure a strong voice, while others do not? While each person has multiple interests linked to different dimensions of his or her identity, much of the existing academic literature assumes that interests are given prior to politics by a person's socioeconomic, institutional, or cultural situation. This book mounts a radical challenge to this view, arguing that interests are actively forged through processes of politics. The book develops an analytic framework for understanding how representation takes place - based on processes of identification, mobilization, and adjudication - and explores how these processes have evolved over time. Through a wide variety of case studies, the chapters explore how actors identify their interests, mobilize them into action, and resolve conflicts among them.

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Book Description

This book argues that interests are actively forged through processes of politics. It develops an analytic framework for understanding how representation takes place - based on processes of identification, mobilization, and adjudication - and explores how these processes have evolved over time.

About the Author

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and a Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Successful Societies Program for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His publications include Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era (edited with Michčle Lamont, Cambridge University Press, 2013), Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (edited with Michčle Lamont, Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (edited with Pepper D. Culpepper and Bruno Palier, 2007). He is the author of more than eighty articles on European politics, public policy making, and comparative political economy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 110761189X
• ISBN 13: 9781107611894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259
• Editor: Professor Peter A. Hall, Professor Wade Jacoby, Professor Jonah Levy, Sophie Meunier