Representative Democracy in Flux (eBook, PDF)

Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective
Redaktion: Belov, Martin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 toward 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 policymakers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics, comparative constitutional law, administrative law, human rights law, and theory and philosophy of law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040361696
• Artikelnr.: 73911777

Autorenporträt

Martin Belov is Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski". He is Vice Dean of the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Imaginary Foundations of Representative
Democracy; 1. Imaginaries of Representation: There and Back Again; 2.
Programmatic Government Beyond Conceptual Distinctions; 3. Channeling
Symbolic Political Representation through Law; Part II. Crisis, Fear and
Their Impact on Representative Democracy; 4. The Global pandemic as a
challenge to representative democracy; 5. Crisis, Fear, and Deliberation.
Appeals to Pathos in the Covid-19 Debate in Dutch Parliament; 6. Fake News
and Democracy: A Lesson from Covid-19 Pandemics; 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; under the rule of law - the case of the European
Strategy for Data; 9. Coherence in diversity? Exploring the institutional
dynamic of enforcement networks in the EU Internal Market; 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; 11. Global democracy. Between
People's Representation and Participation