Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms (SSRC Anxieties of Democracy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009267728 ISBN 13: 9781009267724

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This volume analyses the crisis of democratic representation in liberal democracies and offers reforms for representative institutions.

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About the Authors

Claudia Landwehr is Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at the University of Mainz. In her research, she focuses on deliberative democracy, citizens' understandings of democracy, democratic innovations, and questions of institutional design.

Thomas Saalfeld is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bamberg. Focusing on European democracies, in particular Germany and the United Kingdom, his research contributes to the comparative study of cabinet survival, coalition governance, legislative organization and ethnic-minority representation.

Armin Schäfer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Mainz. His research has focused on the link between social and political inequality, nonvoting, democratic representation, and economic and social policy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009267728
• ISBN 13: 9781009267724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Landwehr Claudia, Saalfeld Thomas, Schäfer Armin