Rethinking Popular Representation

1. Introduction: The Problem Is Representation! Towards an Analytical Framework
Olle Törnquist

2. What Is the Relationship Between Participation and Representation?
Neera Chandhoke

3. The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil
Peter P. Houtzager, Adrian Gurza Lavalle

4. Symbolic Representation as Political Practice
Kristian Stokke, Elin Selboe

5. School Provision, the Capacity to Aspire, and the State of Popular Representation in West Bengal
Neil Webster

6. The Politics of Gradualismo: Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique
Lars Buur

7. Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municipios
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller

8. Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia
Gerry Klinken

9. Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India
John Harriss

10. Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared
Björn Beckman

11. Popular Politics of Representation: New Lessons from the Pioneering Projects in Indonesia, Kerala, and the Philippines
Olle Törnquist, P. K. Michael Tharakan, Nathan Quimpo

12. From Research to Practice: Towards the Democratic Institutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Representation
Neil Webster, Kristian Stokke, Olle Törnquist

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Political Communication, Democracy, International Relations