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A Crisis of Democracy and Representation

出版	Filosofický časopis, 2017
ISBN	80700750159788070075012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=G923tQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Democratic societies (whether new or established) are currently undergoing a profound crisis. It is almost impossible to overlook its symptoms from the decline in voter turnout, the rise of right-wing populism and plebiscitarism, civil discontent, and the decline of traditional folk. The origin of this crisis is often seen in the crisis or disintegration of traditional representative institutions. While some of these developments suggest the demise of representative democracy and celebrate the emergence of post-representative democracy, a significant part of contemporary democratic theory turns (seemingly paradoxically) towards representation as an instrument of democratization of democracy. This movement may seem surprising not only for the factual crisis of representative institutions, but also because a number of current democratic theory (participative, deliberative and radical theory of democracy) formed as a critique of the inherently undemocratic and elitist or oligarchic nature of representative democracy, and as an attempt at its overcoming. The contributions gathered in this volume attempt to capture this intellectual movement and offer a new understanding of the relationship between democracy and representation as a tool both for understanding the crisis of democracy and for its treatment.--From publisher's website.