Titre :

The Modernity of Political Representation, its Innovative Thrust and Transnational Semantic Transfers during the Sattelzeit (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

Auteur(s) :

Hayat, Samuel [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]
Rosales, José María [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

Contributions to the history of concepts

Numéro :

15

Pagination :

69-75

Éditeur :

Berghahn Books

Date de publication :

2020-06-01

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Representation is a major and multifaceted concept of modern politics. Through open and regular elections, it shields the democratic character of representative governments, compelling politicians to pursue the interests ...
Lire la suite >Representation is a major and multifaceted concept of modern politics. Through open and regular elections, it shields the democratic character of representative governments, compelling politicians to pursue the interests of their constituencies and become responsive to their demands. But since the concept of representation is so embedded in the day-to-day workings of democratic regimes, it has largely lost significant traces of its history that shed light on its political dawn. The instrumentalization of the concept by representative governments in order to assess their democratic legitimacy obfuscates its seminal ambiguities and the history of conflicts about its meaning and institutional functions.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Établissement(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS

Collections :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Date de dépôt :

2020-12-04T10:15:46Z
2020-12-08T16:02:32Z