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David Laycock
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$95.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 5/10/2004
ISBN: 9780774810784
$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2005
ISBN: 9780774810791
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About the Book
With public confidence in representative institutions dropping to distressing levels, it is time for political theorists to reconnect issues of representation to considerations of justice, rights, citizenship, pluralism, and community. Representation and Democratic Theory investigates theoretical and practical aspects of innovative political representation in the early twenty-first century. It reveals the complexity of contemporary political representation and the importance of re-invigorating public life outside legislatures, political parties, and competitive elections.
A crucial supplement to empirical studies of conventional political representation this book offers a timely and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary democratic theory. It will be a necessary and welcome addition to the libraries of many political and social scientists.
About the Author(s)
David Laycock is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / David Laycock
Part 1: Representation in Response to Minority Rights, Multiculturalism and Institutional Complexity
1. When (if ever) Are Referendums on Minority Rights Fair? / Avigail Eisenberg
2. Language, Representation, and Suprastate Democracy: Questions Facing the European Union / Peter Ives
3. Getting to Yes: People, Practices, and the Paradox of Multicultural Democracy / Catherine Frost
4. Feminist Engagement with Federal Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Women's Multilevel Citizenship / Louise Chappell
Part 2: Reconceiving Representation through Citizenship and Community
5. Sharing the River: Aboriginal Representation in Canadian Political Institutions / Melissa S. Williams
6. The Self-Government of Unbounded Communities: Emancipatory Minority Autonomy in China and Western Europe / Susan J. Henders
7. What Do Citizens Need to Share? Citizenship as Reasonableness / Jonathan Quong
Part 3: Pluralist, Deliberative, and Participatory Challenges to Representation
8. The New Constitutionalism and the Polarizing Performance of the Canadian Conversation / Gerald Kernerman
9. Demanding Deliberative Democracy and Representation / Greg Pyrcz
10. What Can Democratic Participation Mean Today? / Mark E. Warren
11. Representing Pluralism: A Comment on Pyrcz, Warren, and Kernerman / Simone Chambers
Conclusion
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
Reviews
Scholars of many different areas of political science will probaly find something here that addresses their own concerns, while scholars of either Canadian politics or democratic theory are likely to find much of interest in this collection.
–-- Alexandra Kelso, University of Strathclyde, Political Studies Review, Vol 3, No 3, September 2005
Sample Chapter
Introduction
Related Topics
Political Science
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