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In an ideal democracy, representatives would entirely reflect
citizens' views, preferences and wishes in their legislative work.
However, real-life democracies do not meet this ideal and citizens'
policy preferences and priorities are mirrored only inadequately.
This book provides new insights on political representation. It is
guided by three questions: what roles should representatives play?
Who is actually or should be represented? How are the
representatives (or how should they be) connected with the
represented? Containing contributions from the perspectives of
political theory and philosophy, as well as quantitative empirical
studies, the volume demonstrates the need to adapt these
established questions to new political realities. This text will be
of key interest to scholars and students of political
representation and parties, political theory, democratic theory,
political philosophy and comparative politics.
In an ideal democracy, representatives would entirely reflect
citizens' views, preferences and wishes in their legislative work.
However, real-life democracies do not meet this ideal and citizens'
policy preferences and priorities are mirrored only inadequately.
This book provides new insights on political representation. It is
guided by three questions: what roles should representatives play?
Who is actually or should be represented? How are the
representatives (or how should they be) connected with the
represented? Containing contributions from the perspectives of
political theory and philosophy, as well as quantitative empirical
studies, the volume demonstrates the need to adapt these
established questions to new political realities. This text will be
of key interest to scholars and students of political
representation and parties, political theory, democratic theory,
political philosophy and comparative politics.
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Value Change in Switzerland (Hardcover)
Hanspeter Kriesi, Simon Hug; Contributions by Laurant Bernhard, Simon Bornschier, Marc Buhlmann, …
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Values form fundamental principles that help orient individuals in
their daily life, and as such are rather stable across time.
Changes in the political, economic, and social environment, as
those experienced by Switzerland in the last two decades, may
affect these value priorities through generational change and
individual reorientations. The present book documents how values
have changed over the last twenty years in Switzerland as it
navigated in the rough waters of an increasingly globalized
environment and a changing international political context. The
contributions show how Swiss citizens position themselves in their
social relations, including the large share of foreigners among the
residents in the Alpine republic. In particular, the book
highlights how religious values have changed in their meanings.
Contributions to this volume also show the consequences of value
change in the social and political sphere. Values influence the
citizens' views on European integration, their disposition to
provide volunteer work, their electoral choices, etc. The volume
thus offers a detailed view on how values have changed in
Switzerland and how these changes affected the social and political
sphere.
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