Description:
This book responds to critical questions about the practice and legitimacy of representation in today's politics. It also explores critical themes such as performances of representation and becoming representative.
Brief description: Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2016-19). His most recent books are The Representative Claim (Oxford UP 2010) and the co-edited volume (with Engin Isin) Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge UP 2013). He has published a wide range of articles and chapters on democracy, representation, citizenship, the European Union, and public policy, including in American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics and Journal of Political Philosophy. His most recent journal article is 'Agency, Design and "Slow Democracy"', in Time and Society, vol. 26, issue 3, 2017.
Review Quotes: In this new book, Michael Saward deepens and extends his pathbreaking constructivist approach to political representation. Closely attentive to political practices and problems, this lucid and analytically precise book secures Saward's place as one of the most innovative and important theorists of representation within contemporary democratic theory.--Mark E. Warren, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia