Reclaiming representation: contemporary advances in the theory of political representation

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Understanding Political Representation -- 1. Performative Imaginaries: Pitkin versus Hobbes on Political Representation -- Interests and Responsiveness View -- Constructive Elements of Personhood -- Representation by Fiction and the Spectre of the Ward -- Matter and Makers -- Imagination, Symbols, Representation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. What is Representation? On Being and Becoming a Representative -- 1 The Problem -- 2 Concepts, Norms, and Institutions -- 3 The Concepts of Representation -- 4 Representative, Defined -- 5 Testing the Model. -- 6 Testing Against Alternative Accounts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Performative Representation -- Concepts: Representation, Performance, Performativity -- The Centrality of Performance to Representation -- Set-piece and Everyday Performances of Self -- The Centrality of Performativity to Representation -- Performative Success and Failure -- Performing Concession ("Nothing is Inevitable Here") -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Representation and Legitimacy -- 4. The Two Cultures of Democratic Theory: Responsiveness, Democratic Quality, and the Empirical-Normative Divide -- Introduction -- The Doctrine of Responsiveness -- What Counts as "Democratic Theory"? -- The Rejection of Perfect Responsiveness in All Democratic Theory -- Behind the Disconnect -- Bridging the Two Cultures: Empiricists -- Bridging the Two Cultures: Normative Theorists -- Conclusion: Conversation, not Identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Toward a Mobilization Conception of Democratic Representation -- The "Constructivist Turn" in Opinion Formation and Preference-Based Democracy -- The Democratic "Rediscovery" of Representation