1st Edition
Representative Democracy in Flux Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective
Introduction
MARTIN BELOV
PART I The imaginary foundations of representative democracy
1 Imaginaries of representation: there and back again
MARTIN BELOV
2 Programmatic government beyond conceptual distinctions
ZORAN OKLOPCIC
3 Framing political processes through constitution-based symbolic representation
MATIJA MILOŠ
PART II Crisis, fear, and their impact on representative democracy
4 The global pandemic as a challenge to representative democracy
JAN ADAMOWSKI AND MONIKA FLORCZAK-WĄTOR
5 Crisis, fear, and rhetorical democracy: appeals to pathos in Dutch political debates on the COVID-19 pandemic
BART VAN KLINK AND INGEBORG VAN DER GEEST
6 Fake news and democracy: a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic
GUERINO FARES
PART III Agencification, transnational administrative networks, and the future of representative democracy: democratictechnocratic (dis)balance and trends toward technocracy, bureaucracy, and expertocracy?
7 Administrative legislative policy in EU national communities: assessing benefits and risks amidst the globalization of law
MAURO ZAMBONI
8 The role of European composite administration in the GDPR, the AI Act and the EHDS regulation – what about the rule of law?
JANE REICHEL
9 Coherence in diversity? Exploring the institutional dynamic of enforcement networks in the EU internal market
ANTONINA BAKARDJIEVA ENGELBREKT
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
ŠEJLA IMAMOVIĆ
11 Global democracy: between people’s representation and participation
MARIA VICTORIA KRISTAN
Biography
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.
