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

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;??8. The role of administration as political actor?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