OHB POLIT REPRESENT LIB DEMOC OHBK C

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-882508-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 736 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies. In 34 chapters the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation address eight broad themes: The concept and theories of political representation, its history and the main requisites for its development; elite orientations and behavior; descriptive representation; party government and representation; non-electoral forms of political participation and how they relate to political representation; the challenges to representative democracy originating from the growing importance of non-majoritarian institutions and social media; the rise of populism and its consequences for the functioning of representative democracy; the challenge caused by economic and political globlization: what does it mean for the functioning of political representation at the national leval and is it possible to develop institutions of representative democracy at a level above the state that meet the normative criteria of representative democracy and are supported by the people? The various chapters offer a comprehensive review of the literature on the various aspects of political representation. The main organizing principle of the Handbook is the chain of political representation, the chain connecting the interests and policy preferences of the people to public policy via political parties, parliament, and government. Most of the chapters assessing the functioning of the chain of political representation and its various links are based on original comparative political research. Comparative research on political representation and its various subfields has developed dramatically over the last decades so that even ten years ago a Handbook like this would have looked totally different.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rohrschneider, Robert

Thomassen, Jacques

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I. Concept and theories of political representation

- 1: Jane Mansbridge: The Evolution of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies: Concepts and Practices

- 2: Carles Boix, WillHorn and Alex Kerchner: The Formation and Development of Liberal Democracies

- 3: Christian Welzel: The cultural Pre-Requisites of Democracy.

- 4: Rudy B. Andeweg and Tom Louwerse: The institutional framework of representative democracy: Comparing the Populist-Majoritarian and the Liberal/Consensual Model

- 5: Carolien van Ham: Electoral Integrity.

- Part II. Elite Orientations and Behavior

- 6: Simon Hug: Roll-call voting behavior in legislatures

- 7: Thomas Zittel: Constituency Candidates and Political Representation

- Part III. Descriptive representation

- 8: Anne Philips: Descriptive Representation Revisited

- 9: Karen Celis and Silvia Erzeel: Gender equality

- 10: Didier Ruedin: Regional and Ethnic Minorities

- 11: David Farrell and Peter Stone: Sortition and Mini-Publics: A Different Kind of Representation

- Part IV. Party Government and Representation

- 12: Richard S. Katz: The Model of Party Government

- 13: Russell Dalton: Party Competition and Representation

- 14: Wouter van der Brug, Eelco Harteveld and Jaap van Slageren: Party government and Voters

- 15: Reuven Hazan and Reut Itzkovich-Malka: Parliamentarians and Party Groups: the Role of Intra-party Unity

- 16: Thomas Poguntke and Susan Scarrow: Intra-party Democracy and Representation: Necessity, Complement, or Challenge?

- 17: Robert Thompson: Parties' Election Manifestos and Public Policies

- 18: Zoe Lefkofridi: Opinion-Policy congruence

- 19: Bingham Powell: Mandate vs Accountability

- 20: André Blais, Ruth Dassonneville and Filip Kostelka: Political equality and Turnout

- 21: Sören Holmberg: Feeling represented

- Part V. Beyond Elections as Instruments of Representative Democracy

- 22: Céline Colombo and Hanspeter Kriesi: Referendums and Direct Democracy

- 23: Jeremy Richardson: Interest Groups and the Market for Representation

- 24: Jan van Deth: Non-electoral Participation

- 25: Christopher Wlezien: Dynamic Representation

- Part VI. Challenges to representative democracy: domestic origins

- 26: Mark Bovens and Thomas Schillemans: Non-majoritarian institutions

- 27: Mark Peffley, Alexander Denison and Travis N. Taylor: Print, Electronic and Social Media and the Transformation of Democratic Representation

- Part VII: Challenges to Representative Democracies: Populism

- 28: Pippa Norris: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracies

- 29: Thomas M. Meyer and Markus Wagner: The Rise of Populism in Modern Democracies

- 30: Zsolt Enyedi and Stephen Whitefield: Populists in Power: Populism and Representation in Illiberal Democracies

- Part VIII. Challenges to Representative Democracy: International Aspects

- 31: Timothy Hellwig: Globalization, Electoral Change and Representation

- 32: Sara B. Hobolt: Representation and the European Union

- 33: Jorge M. Fernandes and Pedro Magalhães: Does Economic and Political Integration Undermine Representative Democracy? Lessons from the 2008 Economic Crisis in the European Union

- 34: Richard Bellamy: Globalisation and Representative Democracy: Normative Challenges

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Rohrschneider is Sir Robert Worcester Distinguished Professor of International Public Opinion and Survey Research at the University of Kansas. He teaches Comparative Politics and his research focuses on Comparative Public Opinion, Political Parties, Democratic Representation in Western and Central-Eastern Europe.

Jacques Thomassen is an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is member and former secretary general of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held visiting positions at the universities of Michigan, Harvard, Mannheim, the Australian National University, and the European University Institute. He published widely on issues of political representation, electoral behaviour, democracy, and legitimacy. He was a founding member of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and participated in many other projects of comparative political research. Among his publications are Elections and Democracy: Representation and Accountability OUP 2014; Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis: Explaining trends and cross-national differences in established democracies OUP 2017.