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PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781474442619

RRP: £24.99

PAGES: 320

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 30, 2020

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The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation

Lisa Disch

Mathijs van de Sande

Nadia Urbinati

This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation; constituencies or groups exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented.

Lisa Disch

Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University

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