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Handbook on Representation

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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 democr

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KPXI CAD h

Publisher

[s.l] : Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit-United Nations Development Programme (CPRU-UNDP)., 2008

Collation

xv, 84 hlm. : ilus. ; 12 cm.

Language

English

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KPXI

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Edition

2008

Subject(s)

Administrasi dan disiplin intern
Representation

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