Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms Landwehr Claudia
Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms Landwehr Claudia In the past two decades, democratic institutions have faced a crisis of representation. In response to an increasingly…
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Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms Landwehr Claudia
In the past two decades, democratic institutions have faced a crisis of representation. In response to an increasingly fraught political climate, Contested Representation brings together scholars from across the United States and Europe to critically assess the performance of representative institutions in Europe and North America. From authoritarian backsliding in countries with recent democratic transformations, to severe challenges to established liberal democracies, the meaning of political representation and whether and when it succeeds has become highly debated.
Chapters also address the broader normative question of how Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this volume looks at the viability of electoral institutions, the responsiveness of government to public preferences, alternative institutions for more inclusive democracy, and the political economy of populism.