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Research on the democratic legitimacy of non-elected actors influencing policy while acting as representatives is often lacking in governance literature, despite being increasingly relevant worldwide. Recent theories of representation argue that there are non-electoral mechanisms to appoint such non-elected representatives and hold them responsible for their actions. Consequently, democratic ...
Abstract. This chapter takes the representative claim framework and deploys it to illuminate a range of issues around the controversial issue of non‐elective representation. The characteristic strengths and limits of electoral representation are examined, showing how and why there are gaps in political representation that unelected actors can ...
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Nov 1, 2012 · Non-elected representatives are becoming a supplement to the formally elected representatives. Several non-elected actors from employers' organisations, trade unions, NGOs, celebrities, businesses ...
Mar 3, 2016 · It argues that the fleeting and fragmentary equalities evident in non-elective representation are democratically significant, and that examining them can enhance understanding of the democratic promise and limits of different modes of representation.
- Michael Saward
- 2016
That democracy is in crisis today is a truism, so much so that our era has been called “post democratic” (CROUCH 2005). The disintegration of the relationship between territory, legislation and rights induced by globalisation creates difficulties in the configuration of political spaces, as what regulates them is the growing relevance of non-representative powers (IMF, rating agencies ...
Jul 27, 2019 · This includes the dialectic between the representatives and the represented, and allows for the understanding of non-elective forms of representation such as ‘surrogate representation’ (Mansbridge, 2003), whereby representatives bring in interests and perspectives that are technically outside their formal territorial representation (e.g ...
Jan 2, 2006 · Political representation occurs when political actors speak, advocate, symbolize, and act on the behalf of others in the political arena. In short, political representation is a kind of political assistance. This seemingly straightforward definition, however, is not adequate as it stands. For it leaves the concept of political representation ...
