Representative Democracy in Flux

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. It explores the constitutional imaginaries of representation, with special attention to the impact of the politics of fear on representative democracy.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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