Introduction: rethinking the future of representative democracy Sonia Alonso, John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel 1. Representative democracy and its critics Nadia Urbinati 2. Representative democracy and the populist temptation Klaus von Beyme 3. The wider canvas: representation and democracy in state and society Michael Saward 4. Performance and deficits of present-day representation Bernhard Wessels 5. Do parliaments have a future? David Beetham 6. Engendering representative democracy Drude Dahlerup 7. Representative democracy and the multinational demos Sonia Alonso 8. Diagnosing and designing democracy in Europe Philippe C. Schmitter 9. Monitory democracy? John Keane 10. Representing nature Robyn Eckersley 11. Democracy and representation beyond the nation state Michael Zurn and Gregor Walter-Drop.
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