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Mexico is a country whose global political and economic
significance is rapidly increasing. This book offers the first
in-depth English-language analysis of its politics of
representation. Through innovative conceptual work and original
case studies, it explores important trends in Mexican politics and
governance through the lens of representation, including who speaks
and stands for whom, on what grounds and in what domains and the
challenges they face. Revealing a significant portrait of major
tensions in, and challenges to, democracy across Mexico, this book
will be of interest to those researching current trends in the
theory and practice of political representation, and readers
looking for new perspectives on Mexican politics and governance.
Democratic Innovation is an original look at the political future
of democracy, exploring the latest ideas aimed at renewing popular
power.
Featuring new writings by leading European, American and Australian
democratic theorists, this book explores the following themes:
* the importance of public deliberation in democracies
* how effective representation for all might be acheived
* the role that voluntary associations can play in democratic
governance
This text looks at the political future of democracy, exploring the
latest ideas aimed at renewing popular power. Featuring new writing
by leading European, American and Australian democratic theorists,
this book explores the importance of public deliberation in
democracies, how effective representation for all might be
achieved, and how associations outside government may be at the
heart of democracy's future. The contributors examine issues such
as how our political systems can be revitalized; how ordinary
people can be empowered when issues are so complex; whether the
interests of marginalized groups, or of the natural world, can be
effectively represented; and the role which voluntary associations
can play in democratic governance. Through clear and rigorous
debate, they consider the new institutions and attitudes which will
be needed if democracy is to rise to the many challenges
confronting it. This volume offers searching and accessible
critiques of the latest thinking on deliberative democracy.
In the past decade, the way we look at political representation has
changed. A new wave of thinking shows how representation rises from
claims to speak for others, and how the claims are performed and
received. The claim-based approach has introduced new characters to
the drama of representation, such as non-elective representatives,
and provided tools to analyse representation across the borders of
nation-states. Written by the originator of this new approach,
Making Representations responds to critical questions about the
practice and the legitimacy of political representation in today's
politics. It also expands the scope of the representative claim
approach by exploring innovative themes including performances of
representation, the place of 'shape-shifting' representatives in
our politics, and how equality is (and is not) realised through
representation.
Democracy faces stern tests around the world in the twenty-first
century. Democratic Design argues that to respond effectively and
creatively, democrats need to work with a versatile new toolkit of
concepts and institutions. The book assembles this toolkit - the
democratic design framework - through an original blend of design
thinking and democratic theory and practice. It shows how to use
the framework to renew and enliven our ideas of democracy across a
range of contexts. The book explores a wide range of institutions,
from the familiar (such as parliamentary procedures) to the
innovative (such as citizens' assemblies). It underlines the
importance of systemic and contextual design, and the practical
enactment of democratic values such as equality, freedom and
participation. Democratic Design shows how a comprehensive approach
to rethinking the present and future of democratic governance is
possible, indeed essential. It draws together, and moves beyond,
the best of existing theories and models by devising a new
framework that is both practical and theoretically robust.
Representation is more than a matter of elections and parties. This
book offers a radical new perspective on the subject.
Representation, it argues, is all around us, a dynamic practise
across societies rather than simply a fixed feature of government.
At the heart of the argument is the straightforward but versatile
notion of the representative claim. People claim to speak or stand
for others in multiple, shifting, and surprising patterns. At the
same time they offer images of their constituents and audiences as
artists paint portraits. Who can speak for and about us in this
volatile world of representations? Which representative claims can
have democratic legitimacy?
The Representative Claim is set to transform our core assumptions
about what representation is and can be. At a time when political
representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book
provides a timely and critical corrective to conventional wisdom on
the present and potential future of representative democracy.
What does it mean to be a European citizen? The rapidly changing
politics of citizenship in the face of migration, diversity,
heightened concerns about security and financial and economic
crises, has left European citizenship as one of the major political
and social challenges to European integration. Enacting European
Citizenship develops a distinctive perspective on European
citizenship and its impact on European integration by focusing on
'acts' of European citizenship. The authors examine a broad range
of cases - including those of the Roma, Sinti, Kurds, sex workers,
youth and other 'minorities' or marginalised peoples - to
illuminate the ways in which the institutions and practices of
European citizenship can hinder as well as enable claims for
justice, rights and equality. This book draws the key themes
together to explore what the limitations and possibilities of
European citizenship might be.
What does it mean to be a European citizen? The rapidly changing
politics of citizenship in the face of migration, diversity,
heightened concerns about security and financial and economic
crises, has left European citizenship as one of the major political
and social challenges to European integration. Enacting European
Citizenship develops a distinctive perspective on European
citizenship and its impact on European integration by focusing on
'acts' of European citizenship. The authors examine a broad range
of cases - including those of the Roma, Sinti, Kurds, sex workers,
youth and other 'minorities' or marginalised peoples - to
illuminate the ways in which the institutions and practices of
European citizenship can hinder as well as enable claims for
justice, rights and equality. This book draws the key themes
together to explore what the limitations and possibilities of
European citizenship might be.
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