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Representative Democracy in Flux: Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective

Representative Democracy in Flux: Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective

Author: Martin Belov
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781041005964
Published In: June 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features – institutional and imaginary – and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality. The collection explores the constitutional imaginaries of representation. It outlines the main factors influencing the failures of representative democracy, in an age of constitutional crisis and transition, being gradually deconstructed via tendencies towards authoritarianism and technocracy. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the politics of fear on representative democracy. The analysis shows the main challenges stemming from national, international, transnational, and supranational technocracy produced by the increased role of administration, agencies, and courts. It exposes representative democracy as a composite phenomenon stretched between reason and emotions and between the constitutional past, present, and future.

The volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and policy-makers working in the areas of Constitutional Law and Politics, Comparative Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights Law, and Theory and Philosophy of Law.

Introduction

Part I. The Imaginary Foundations of Representative Democracy

1. Imaginaries of Representation: There and Back Again

Martin Belov

2. Programmatic Government Beyond Conceptual Distinctions

Zoran Oklopcic

3. Channeling Symbolic Political Representation through Law

Matija Milos

Part II. Crisis, Fear and Their Impact on Representative Democracy

4. The Global pandemic as a challenge to representative democracy

Jan Adamowski and Monika Florczak-Wątor

5. Crisis, Fear, and Deliberation. Appeals to Pathos in the Covid-19 Debate in Dutch Parliament

Bart van Klink and Ingeborg van der Geest

6. Fake News and Democracy: A Lesson from Covid-19 Pandemics

Guerino Fares

Part III. Agencification, Transnational Administrative Networks and the Future of Representative Democracy: Democratic-Technocratic (Dis)Balance and Trends Towards Technocracy, Bureaucracy and Expertocracy?

7. Administrative Legislative Policy in EU National Communities: Assessing Benefits and Risks Amidst the Globalization of Law

Mauro Zamboni

8. The role of administration as political actor under the rule of law - the case of the European Strategy for Data

Jane Reichel

9. Coherence in diversity? Exploring the institutional dynamic of enforcement networks in the EU Internal Market

Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt

Part IV. International, Transnational, and Global Dimensions of Representative Democracy

10. Democracy and the Rights of Representation in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Šejla Imamović

11. Global democracy. Between People’s Representation and Participation

M. Victoria Inostroza-Kristan