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Texts on Representative Democracy


 

Author

Title

   
Christopher Achen

Measuring representation (1978) Abstract - Full text (requiring log in)

   
Frank Ankersmit Historical representation (2001) preview e-book here
   
Frank Ankersmit Political representation (2002) preview e-book here
   
Hannah Arendt Between Past and Future (1968) preview e-book here
   
Carol Bacci Arguing for and against quotas. Theoretical issues (2006) - read here
   
Benjamin Barber Strong Democracy (1984) preview e-book here
   
Dario Castiglione and Mark E. Warren
Rethinking Democratic Representation : Eight Theoretical Issues (2006) - read here
   
Robyn Eckersley Liberal Democracy and the Rights of Nature (1995) - Full text (requiring log in)
   
Robyn Eckersley The Green State. Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty (2004) preview e-book here
   
Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad Constitutionalism and democracy (1988) - preview e-book here
   
David Held Models of Democracy (1996) preview e-book here
   
George Kateb The Inner Ocean (1992) preview e-book here
   
George Kateb The Moral Distinctiveness of Representative Democracy (1981) - Full text (requiring log in)
   
John Keane

Democracy: A short history (Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved) - read here

 

   
Bruno Latour

From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik – An Introduction to Making Things Public, in Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel Dingpolitik catalogue of the show MAKING THINGS PUBLIC - Atmospheres of Democracy at ZKM, 2005, MIT Press. , read here courtesy of ZKM & MIT

 

   
Arend Lijphart and Don Aitkin Electoral Systems and Party Systems (1994) preview e-book here
   
Peter Mair Party System Change (1997) preview e-book here
   
B. Manin, E. Stein and J. Mansbridge
On legitimacy and political deliberation (1987) -
   
Jane Mansbridge Should blacks represent blacks and women represent women? A contingent ‘Yes’ (1999)
   
Jane Mansbridge
Rethinking Representation (2003) Abstract - Full text (requiring log in)
   
W.E. Miller, R. Pierce, J. Thomassen, R. Herrera,S. Holmberg, P. Esaiasson and B. Wessels
Policy representation in Western democracies (1999) - preview e-book here
   
Edmund S. Morgan Inventing the people: the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America (1988) - preview e-book here (requiring log in)
   
Pippa Norris The impact of electoral reform on women’s representation (2006)
   
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin Representation and Democracy (2004) original source - read PDF here.
   
David Plotke Representation is Democracy (1997) Abstract
   
Adam Przeworski Democracy as Equilibrium (2004) Abstract - Full text (requiring log in)
   
A. Przeworski, S. Stokes and Bernard Manin Democracy, Accountability and Representation (1999) - preview e-book here
   
Andrew Rehfeld The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy and Institutional Design (2005) preview e-book here
David Runciman The Paradox of Political Representation (2007)
   
Giovanni Sartori and Peter Mair Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (2005) preview e-book here
   
Mike Saward The Representative Claim (2006) full text here
   
Philippe Schmitter

The Future of Democracy in Europe: Trends, Analyses and Reforms, a Green Paper for the Council of Europe, Co-ordinated by Philippe C. Schmitter European University Institute (Italy) and Alexander H. Trechsel University of Geneva (Switzerland) read here

 

   
Philippe Schmitter

Representing Representation (2009) read PDF here

 

   
Nadia Urbinati Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (2006) - preview e-book here
   
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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