The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation

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A comprehensive introduction to a major new approach in the study of democratic representation. This is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive introduction and a critical exploration of the constructivist turn in political representation. Divided into three thematic parts, the 13 newly commissioned essays presented here develop constructivist turn as a central concept advancing the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation because constituencies, or groups, exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented. Complete with an original English translation of 'Democracy and Representation' by the French political philosopher Claude Lefort, this volume delivers a rich critical intervention in democratic theory. Lisa Disch is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (1994), The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (2002) and co-editor, with Mary Hawkesworth, of the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (2016). Nadia Urbinati is a Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Mill on Democracy (2002), Representative Democracy (2006) and Democracy Disfigured (2014). Mathijs van de Sande is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen.