The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation

Lisa Disch

ISBN 10: 1474442609 / ISBN 13: 9781474442602

Published by Edinburgh University Press Jan 2019, 2019

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Neuware - A comprehensive introduction to a major new approach in the study of democratic representation.This is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive introduction and a critical exploration of the constructivist turn in political representation. Divided into three thematic parts, the 13 newly commissioned essays presented here develop constructivist turn as a central concept advancing the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation because constituencies, or groups, exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented. Complete with an original English translation of 'Democracy and Representation' by the French political philosopher Claude Lefort, this volume delivers a rich critical intervention in democratic theory.Lisa Disch is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (1994), The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (2002) and co-editor, with Mary Hawkesworth, of the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (2016).Nadia Urbinati is a Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Mill on Democracy (2002), Representative Democracy (2006) and Democracy Disfigured (2014).Mathijs van de Sande is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Jan 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474442609
• ISBN 13: 9781474442602
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 163H x 25D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 585 grams

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Synopsis

This 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.

About the Authors

Lisa Disch is Professor of Political Science and teaches political theory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (US). Author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell University Press 1994), The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (Columbia University Press 2002), and co-editor (with Mary Hawkesworth) of the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (Oxford University Press 2016), she works on feminist theory, democratic theory, and environmental political theory

Mathijs van de Sande teaches political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2017, he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven with a thesis on the prefigurative repertoire of recent assembly movements, such as Occupy Wall Street. His main research interests are radical democratic theory, political representation, activism and social movement theory.

Nadia Urbinati teaches political theory at Columbia University, New York (US). She works on democratic theory, and in particular representative democracy, populism, plebiscitary leadership, post-party representation.