Political representation as communicative practice / Fabio Wolkenstein, University of Vienna; Christopher Wratil, University of Vienna.
| Author/creator | Wolkenstein, Fabio author |
| Other author | Wratil, Christopher, 1986- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025. |
| Description | 75 pages. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge elements : politics and communication |
| Contents | Ontologies of Political Representation -- Political Representation as Communicative Practice -- Empirical Application : Women's Representation in the UK. |
| Abstract | "It is uncontroversial that the quality of democracy is closely bound up with the quality of political representation. But what exactly is political representation and how should we study it? This Element develops a novel conceptual framework for studying political representation that makes the insights of recent theoretical work on representation usable for quantitative empirical research. The theoretical literature the authors build on makes the case for changing the understanding of representation in two ways. First, it proposes to conceive representation in constructivist terms, as a practice that is shaped by both representatives and represented. Second, it treats communicative acts by representatives that address constituents and different analytical dimensions contained in them as the central category of analysis; political representation is thus conceived as an essentially communicative practice. This Element argues that quantitative research can benefit from taking these innovations seriously, and it provides the conceptual tools for doing so"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Wolkenstein, Fabio Political representation as communicative practice Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025 9781009416092 |
| LCCN | 2025006579 |
| ISBN | 9781009416108 |
| ISBN | 9781009565387 hardback |
| ISBN | 1009565389 |
| ISBN | 1009416103 |
| ISBN | ebook |
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