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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Dilemmas of Democratic Representation -- The Problem of Responsiveness -- New Cleavages, Polarization, and Institutional Resilience -- Toward New Forms of Democratic Governance? -- Overview of the Book -- Part I The Contested Idea of Political Representation |
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2 Contested Representation: Populist Challenges, Political Support and the Reform of Democratic Institutions -- Introduction -- Democracy and Representation -- The Populist Challenge to Representative Democracy -- Citizens' Conceptions of Democracy and Representation -- Procedural Consensus, Meta-deliberation and Institutional Reform -- Conclusion -- 3 Deliberative Minipublics and the Populist Conception of Representation As Embodiment -- Populism and Embodied Representation -- Minipublics and Embodied Representation -- Citizens Representatives: The Ultimate Usurpers? |
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The Illusion of Democracy or ''Beware of Usurpers!'' -- Are the Majority of My Fellow Citizens ''Like Me?'': The Problem of Blind Deference -- An Alternative to Usurpation: From Being like Us to Speaking to Us -- 4 An Evolved Representative Democracy in a Brave New World of Ideological Protest -- A New Democratic Electorate that Communicates to One Another: The Link between Voters and Protestors -- The Emergence of Ideological Protest in the United States -- The Rise and Fall of Protest Movements and the Ideology They Convey in American Democracy |
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A Representative Democracy That Is Taking Ideological Protest Cues: Both Voters and Politicians at Each Stage of the Electoral Process -- Primaries and National Conventions -- Campaign Contributions -- Voter Turnout -- Entering the Race: More Qualified Candidates Run for Office -- Election Results -- A Word about Blacklash -- Conclusion -- 5 Rising to the Challenge?: Political Representation in the European Union -- Introduction -- Approaching Representation in an EU-Context -- Exploring Representative Claims: Data and Methodology -- How Do MEPs Represent? -- Conclusion |
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6 Progress and Failure in Achieving Equal Representation: Understanding Women's Officeholding by Party in the United States -- The Importance of Descriptive Representation -- Men Are Overrepresented in Political Offices -- The Culture of the Democratic and Republican Parties -- The Supply of Women Candidates -- The Development of Political Ambition among Men and Women -- The Effects of Women Political Elites -- The Demand for Republican and Democratic Women -- Democratic Voters Prefer Women Candidates -- Conclusion -- Part II Representation and Responsiveness in Unequal Societies |
| Summary |
This volume analyses the crisis of democratic representation in liberal democracies and offers reforms for representative institutions |
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Representative government and representation -- Cross-cultural studies
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Political participation -- Cross-cultural studies
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Populism -- Cross-cultural studies
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Political participation.
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Populism.
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Representative government and representation.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Landwehr, Claudia, editor
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Saalfeld, Thomas, 1960- editor.
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Schäfer, Armin (Political scientist), editor.
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| ISBN |
100926771X |
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9781009267717 |
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