The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes

The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes
Title The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes PDF eBook
Author Scott Mainwaring
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 398
Release 2006
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780804767910

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The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In this region, disaffection with democracy, political parties, and legislatures has spread to an alarming degree. Many presidents have been forced from office, and many traditional parties have fallen by the wayside. These five countries have the potential to be negative examples in a region that has historically had strong demonstration and diffusion effects in terms of regime changes. "The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes" addresses an important question for Latin America as well as other parts of the world: Why does representation sometimes fail to work?

The Crisis of Representation in Europe

The Crisis of Representation in Europe
Title The Crisis of Representation in Europe PDF eBook
Author Jack Hayward
Publisher Routledge
Pages 234
Release 2012-10-12
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1136305327

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The 1994 European Elections focused public attention on the perception that representatives put integration above public interest. The contributors here critically assess the diagnosis of the ailment and the solutions that have been canvassed to remedy its causes and consequences.

Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America

Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America
Title Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America PDF eBook
Author André Freire
Publisher Routledge
Pages 259
Release 2020-06-03
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0429682581

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This collective volume - with contributions from experts on these regions - examines broader questions about the current crises (The Great Recession and The Commodity Crisis) and the associated changes in political representation in both regions. It provides a general overview of political representation studies in Southern Europe and Latin America and builds bridges between the two traditions of political representation studies, affording greater understanding of developments in each region and promote future research collaboration between Southern Europe and Latin America. Finally, the book addresses questions of continuity and change in patterns of political representation after the onset of the two economic crises, specifically examining issues such as changes in citizens’ democratic support and trust in political representatives and institutions, in-descriptive representation (in the sociodemographic profile of MPs) and in-substantive representation (in the link between voters and MPs in terms of ideological congruence and/or policy/issue orientations). This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political elites, political representation, European and Latin American politics/studies, and more broadly to comparative politics.

Four Crises of American Democracy

Four Crises of American Democracy
Title Four Crises of American Democracy PDF eBook
Author Alasdair Scott Roberts
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 281
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 0190459891

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In Four Crises of American Democracy, Alasdair Roberts puts democratic malaise in the United States in perspective. He describes four distinct "democratic crises" over the past century, and describes how government changed in response to each crisis. The institutions of American democracy, Roberts says, are more flexible than is often appreciated.

The End of Representative Politics

The End of Representative Politics
Title The End of Representative Politics PDF eBook
Author Simon Tormey
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 182
Release 2015-05-19
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0745690513

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Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast. Even oppositional and radical parties that should be benefitting from public disenchantment with politics are suffering. But different forms of political activity are emerging to replace representative politics: instant politics, direct action, insurgent politics. We are leaving behind traditional representation, and moving towards a politics without representatives. In this provocative new book, Simon Tormey explores the changes that are underway, drawing on a rich range of examples from the Arab Spring to the Indignados uprising in Spain, street protests in Brazil and Turkey to the emergence of new initiatives such as Anonymous and Occupy. Tormey argues that the easy assumptions that informed our thinking about the nature and role of parties, and ‘party based democracy’ have to be rethought. We are entering a period of fast politics, evanescent politics, a politics of the street, of the squares, of micro-parties, pop-up parties, and demonstrations. This may well be the end of representative politics as we know it, but an exciting new era of political engagement is just beginning.

The Body in Crisis

The Body in Crisis
Title The Body in Crisis PDF eBook
Author Christine Greiner
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 141
Release 2021-09-20
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0472038664

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A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization

Aesthetic Nervousness

Aesthetic Nervousness
Title Aesthetic Nervousness PDF eBook
Author Ato Quayson
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 265
Release 2007-06-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0231511175

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Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms "aesthetic nervousness." The disabled reminds the able-bodied that the body is provisional and temporary and that normality is wrapped up in certain social frameworks. Quayson expands his argument by turning to Greek and Yoruba writings, African American and postcolonial literature, depictions of deformed characters in early modern England and the plays of Shakespeare, and children's films, among other texts. He considers how disability affects interpersonal relationships and forces the character and the reader to take an ethical standpoint, much like representations of violence, pain, and the sacred. The disabled are also used to represent social suffering, inadvertently obscuring their true hardships.