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Representative Democracy as Tautology : Ankersmit and Lefort on Representation
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- Näsström, Sofia (författare)
- Stockholm University
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- 2016-07-24
- 2006
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: European Journal of Political Theory. - London : Sage Publications. - 1474-8851 .- 1741-2730. ; 5:3, s. 321-342
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Abstract
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- Representative democracy is often assessed from the standpoint of direct democracy. Recently, however, many theorists have come to argue that representation forms a democratic model in its own right. The most powerful claim in this direction is to be found within two quite different strands of thinking: the aesthetic theory of Frank Ankersmit and the savage theory of Claude Lefort. In this article, I show that while Ankersmit and Lefort converge in their critique of direct rule, they provide us with two distinct models of democracy. Aesthetic democracy, I argue, in the end falls short as a democratic recuperation of representation. It reduces representation to delegation. Savage democracy proves more fruitful in this respect. It offers a representative view of politics without committing itself to the premises associated with political delegation
Nyckelord
- action
- aesthetics
- Ankersmit
- conflict
- delegation
- democracy
- election
- Lefort
- representation
- totalitarianism
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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