TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belov,Martin
AU  - Belov,Martin
TI  - Representative Democracy in Flux: Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective
T2  - Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
SN  - 9781003610670
PY  - 2025///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Constitution: government and the state
KW  - thema
KW  - Constitutional and administrative law: general
KW  - Human rights, civil rights
KW  - Jurisprudence and general issues
KW  - Law: Human rights and civil liberties
KW  - Law
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law
KW  - Political control and freedoms
KW  - Political structure and processes
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - agonistic democracy
KW  - constitutional imaginaries
KW  - delegation of legislative power
KW  - emotional constitutionalism
KW  - imaginaries of representation
KW  - participatory democracy
KW  - politics of fear
KW  - populism
KW  - rhetorical democracy
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features - institutional and imaginary - and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality. The collection explores the constitutional imaginaries of representation. It outlines the main factors influencing the failures of representative democracy, in an age of constitutional crisis and transition, being gradually deconstructed via tendencies toward authoritarianism and technocracy. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the politics of fear on representative democracy. The analysis shows the main challenges stemming from national, international, transnational, and supranational technocracy produced by the increased role of administration, agencies, and courts. It exposes representative democracy as a composite phenomenon stretched between reason and emotions and between the constitutional past, present, and future. The volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics, comparative constitutional law, administrative law, human rights law, and theory and philosophy of law
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102692
ER  -