Failing Political Representation or a Change in Kind? Models of Representation and Empirical Trends in Europe

This article reviews Peter Mair's argument on the failure of political parties and the subsequent failure of representative democracy in Europe. It develops a conceptual framework to test the validity of Mair's argument against competing interpretations of the development of representative...

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Published in:West European politics 2014-03, Vol.37 (2), p.400-419
Main Authors: Thomassen, Jacques, van Ham, Carolien
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Conceptualization
Democracy
Europe
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Political Parties
Political Representation
Political Science (Excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)
Representation
Representative Democracy
Statsvetenskap (Exklusive freds- och konfliktforskning)
Validity
Values
Voters
Voting
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Representative Democracy
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Values
Voters
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