New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day

Harm Kaal, Ph.D. (2008), VU University Amsterdam, is associate professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has recently published on popular politics, the scientization of the political, and the history of electoral culture and acts as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied History.Daniëlle Slootjes, Ph.D. (2004), Chapel Hill, is associate professor of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published extensively on late antique Roman administration, geography, the history of early Christianity and crowd behavior in the period of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire.Contributors: Olivier Hekster, Maaike van Berkel, Bert Roest, Peter Rietbergen, Dries Raeymaekers, Sebastiaan Derks, Marij Leenders, Joris Gijsenbergh, Vincent van de Griend, Wim van Meurs, Olga Morozova, Adriejan van Veen.

"The strengths of the individual contributions, which are well-informed and erudite, as well as the guiding hands of the volume’s editors deserve praise. The task of clearly and cogently demonstrating, in barely 200 pages, that across a wide chronological and geographic span a set of discourses, practices, and mechanisms operating as politically representative is discernable is surely an unenviable one. The collected essays are generally written in a very approachable manner and one need not be well versed in contemporary political theory to grasp the overarching arguments."Corey J. Ellithorpe in BMCR 2020.06.24

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresContributors1 Introduction: Repertoires of RepresentationHarm Kaal and Daniëlle Slootjes2 Emperors and Councillors: Imperial Representation between Republic and EmpireOlivier Hekster3 Politics of Access at the Court of the CaliphMaaike van Berkel4 Representative Bodies in Medieval Religious Orders: A Discarded Legacy?Bert Roest5 The Political Rhetoric of Capitals: Rome and Versailles in the Baroque Period, or the “Power of Place”Peter Rietbergen6 Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks7 The Image of Prime Minister Colijn: Public Visualisation of Political Leadership in the 1930sMarij Leenders and Joris Gijsenbergh8 Postwar Popular Politics: Integrating the Voice of the People in Postwar Political HistoryHarm Kaal and Vincent van de Griend9 Majdan: Presence and Political Representation in Post-Communist UkraineWim van Meurs and Olga Morozova10 Regulation without Representation? Independent Regulatory Authorities and Representative Claim-Making in the Netherlands, 1997-nowAdriejan van VeenIndex