Papers presented by Participants

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• Sonia Alonso  (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung). Title: Multinational Democracies: Threat or Opportunity for Democratic Representation? -- Abstract here
• David Beetham (University of Leeds and International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assessment). Title: Do Parliaments Have a Future? -- Abstract here.
• Klaus von Beyme (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, University of Heidelberg). Title: The Present Forms of Representative Democracy -- Abstract here.
• Drude Dahlerup (University of Stockholm). Title: Engendering Democracy -- Abstract here.
• Niraja Gopal Jayal (Jawaharlal Nehru University). Title: The Limits of Representative Democracy -- Abstract here.
• John Keane (Center for the Study of Democracy,  Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung). Title: Rethinking the Origins and Future of Representative Government. - Full Paper here
• Wolfgang Merkel (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Humboldt Universität). Title: Challenges to Representative Democracy.
• Bhikhu Parekh  (House of Lords and University of Westminster, UK). Title: A Comment on Niraja Jayal’s “The Limits of Representative Democracy”
  
• Michael Saward (Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, UK). Title: Representation and democracy: revisions and possibilities -- Abstract here.
• Philippe Schmitter (European University Institute, Florence). Title: How to Improve the Performance of Political Parties… and Why Bother?
• Nadia Urbinati (Nell and Herbert M. Singer Associate Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University). Title: Democracy on Trial: On Some Recent Conceptions of Political Deliberation -- Abstract here.
• Bernhard Weßels (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Hertie School of Governance). Title: Performance and Deficits of Present-day Representation.
• Michael Zürn (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Hertie School of Governance). Title: Representation beyond the Nation-State -- Abstract here.