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The untimely death of Peter Mair (1951-2011) European political science lost one of its leading researchers. Mair is mainly known as an expert in the field of political parties, but in recent years his interest widened more and more to representative democracy in general. On the development of political representation as a link between the policy views of citizens and policy efforts of their representatives he spoke in increasingly gloomy terms. In this essay, I outline the different stages in the thinking of Peter Mair on this topic before asking whether his pessimism about the future of representative democracy is legitimate. Adapted from the source document.