The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation

Explores the 'constructivist turn': political representation's reorientation toward the constitutive or mobilising aspects of mass democracy This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without r