Welcome to the first of many REDIRECT Online Workshops!
On Friday 9 February at 3:30 P.M. (GMT) / 4:30 P.M. (CET) / 10:30 A.M. (ET), this workshop will focus on the formation and principles of modern representative democracy.
We intend to address the issue of Modern Representative Democracy from both historical-institutional and philosophical-conceptual perspectives. The Workshop is meant as a conversation aimed to explore the key ideas and the state of the contemporary debate on the formation and on the normative and institutional principles and practices of ‘representative democracy’ as form of modern government.
The Workshop will address three main questions:
- The nature and historical formation of ‘representative democracy’ as a distinctive modern form of government
- The relationship between representative democracy and other forms and ideals of democracy; and
- The exitance of core institutional and normative principles and processes in representative democracy
The conversation around these broad questions will be guided by the reflections of Professors Céline Spector (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University, NY), and chaired by Dario Castiglione (Exeter University).
If you’re interested, to join write to: d.castiglione@exeter.ac.uk
