The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies

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ID19973781
EditorsRobert Rohrschneider (0000-0003-2485-9648), Jacques Thomassen
Year2020
Pages704
Publication date2020-07-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825081.001.0001
OpenAlexW4244921853
Open LibraryOL28121379M
ISBN9780198825081
LanguageEN
Citations received96

How can democracies effectively represent citizens? The goal of this Handbook is to evaluate comprehensively how well the interests and preferences of mass publics become represented by institutions in liberal democracies. It first explores how the idea and institutions of liberal democracies were formed over centuries and became enshrined in Western political systems. The contributors to this Handbook, made up of the world’s leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation, examine how well the political elites and parties who are charged with the representation of the public interest meet their duties. Clearly, institutions often fail to live up to their own representation goals. With this in mind, the contributors explore several challenges to the way that the system of representation is organized in modern democracies. For example, actors such as parties and established elites face rising distrust among electorates. Also, the rise of international problems such as migration and environmentalism suggests that the focus of democracies on nation states may have to shift to a more international level. All told, this Handbook illuminates the normative and functional challenges faced by representative institutions in liberal democracies

Democracy · Distrust · Face (sociological concept) · Liberal democracy · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · 89.35 democracy · Liberalism · politics and government · Representative government and representation

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