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Equality and Representation: New Perspectives in Democratic Theory book cover

1st Edition

Equality and Representation New Perspectives in Democratic Theory

Edited By Anthoula Malkopoulou, Lisa Hill Copyright 2018
170 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume is primarily concerned with equality as a basic component of the democratic character of representation. In other words, of the many types of equality that have attracted the attention of theorists since democracy’s beginnings – arithmetic equality, equality before the law, equality of opportunity– we would like to draw attention to representational equality , that is, the role of... Read more

Introduction
Anthoula Malkopoulou and Lisa Hill

1. The challenge of equality Fragments of equality in representative politics
Michael Saward

2. Representation, equality, and inclusion in deliberative systems: desiderata for a good account
Eva Erman

3. Voting turnout, equality, liberty and representation: epistemic versus procedural democracy
Lisa Hill

4. The challenge of representation De-presentation rights as a response to extremism
Anthoula Malkopoulou

5. Political participation, social inequalities, and special veto powers
Dirk Jörke

6. Sortition, voting, and democratic equality
Peter Stone

7. Issues and images – new sources of inequality in current representative democracy
Winfried Thaa

Postscript
Nadia Urbinati

Biography

Anthoula Malkopoulou is a Researcher at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Lisa Hill is Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

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