Mapping, Critiquing and Pushing the Boundaries
New ideas, practices and sites of political representation are challenging orthodox thinking in political science and in day-to-day politics. Featuring an impressive range of approaches and methods, the contributors to The Edges of Political Representation describe and interrogate these challenges-electoral, symbolic, transnational and generational among others. The book is a timely and sophisticated series of takes on the new frontiers of representation. -- Michael Saward, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick This collection is a timely and challenging contribution to thinking about representative democracy. The problem of incomplete representation is tackled throughout: however free and fair elections may be, they do not imply an equal and fair inclusion of intra-societal differences. This makes the book a must-read for all those who care for a just democracy. -- Hans Keman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mihnea Tanasescu is an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Political Science Department, Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. Clare Dupont is Assistant Professor of European and International Governance, Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University, Belgium.
Acknowledgements 1.Introduction Mihnea Tanasescu and Claire Dupont 2.Electoral Representation Kris Deschouwer 3.Exclusion and Representation: Women's Struggle for Inclusion Karen Celis 4.Representation and Accountability of the European Union in Global Governance Institutions Sebastian Oberthur 5.Representing Persons: Evocative Representation Mihnea Tanasescu 6.Theorising Representation Fairness: Why We Need to Account for Social Groups Eline Severs 7.Representing Future Generations Claire Dupont 8.Understanding the Controversy of 'Black Pete' through the Lens of Symbolic Representation Ilke Adam, Soumia Akachar, Karen Celis, Serena D'Agostino & Eline Severs 9.An Architecture for Hybrid Democracy in the EU: when Participation (en)counters Representation Ferran Davesa & Jamal Shahin 10.Conclusions Mihnea Tanasescu and Claire Dupont