Making Representations: Claim, Counterclaim and the Politics of Acting for Others

Michael Saward

Jul 2020 · ECPR Press

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In the past decade, the way we look at political representation has changed. A new wave of thinking shows how representation rises from claims to speak for others, and how the claims are performed and received. The claim-based approach introduces new characters to the drama of representation, such as non-elective, shape-shifting and transnational representatives. Written by an originator of this approach,

Making Representations responds to critical questions about the practice and the legitimacy of representation in today's politics. It also expands the scope of the representative claim approach by exploring innovative themes such as performances of representation, becoming representative, and how we can generate political insights by exploring artistic representation.

About the author

Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2016-19). His 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.

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