02341nam a22003618a 4500 CR9780511770883 UkCbUP 20171019114422.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100511s2011||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511770883 (ebook) 9781107003569 (hardback) 9780521177030 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda JF1051 .F88 2011 321.8 22 The Future of Representative Democracy / Edited by Sonia Alonso, John Keane, Wolfgang Merkel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (322 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and their future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms of present-day trends and past theories of representative democracy. Aware of the pressing need for clarifying key concepts and institutional trends, the volume aims to break down barriers among disciplines and to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The contributors emphasise that representative democracy and its future is a subject of pressing scholarly concern and public importance. Paying close attention to the unfinished, two-centuries-old relationship between democracy and representation, this book offers a fresh perspective on current problems and dilemmas of representative democracy and the possible future development of new forms of democratic representation. Representative government and representation Democracy Alonso, Sonia, editor of compilation. Keane, John, editor of compilation. Merkel, Wolfgang, editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107003569 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770883 225314 225314