Representative democracy as tautology : Ankersmit and Lefort on representation

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dc.contributor.authorNÄSSTRÖM, Sofia
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-23T13:28:01Z
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dc.date.issued2006
dc.descriptionFirst published online: 1 July 2006en
dc.description.abstractRepresentative democracy is often assessed from the standpoint of direct democracy. Recently, however, many theorists have come to argue that representation forms a democratic model in its own right. The most powerful claim in this direction is to be found within two quite different strands of thinking: the aesthetic theory of Frank Ankersmit and the savage theory of Claude Lefort. In this article, I show that while Ankersmit and Lefort converge in their critique of direct rule, they provide us with two distinct models of democracy. Aesthetic democracy, I argue, in the end falls short as a democratic recuperation of representation. It reduces representation to delegation. Savage democracy proves more fruitful in this respect. It offers a representative view of politics without committing itself to the premises associated with political delegation.en
dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of political theory, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 321-342en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1474885106064664
dc.identifier.endpage342en
dc.identifier.issn1474-8851
dc.identifier.issn1741-2730
dc.identifier.issue3en
dc.identifier.startpage321en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/67832
dc.identifier.volume5en
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherSageen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of political theoryen
dc.subjectActionen
dc.subjectAestheticsen
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectDelegationen
dc.subjectDemocracyen
dc.subjectElectionen
dc.subjectRepresentationen
dc.subjectTotalitarianismen
dc.titleRepresentative democracy as tautology : Ankersmit and Lefort on representationen
dc.typeArticleen
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