Block I. Political Representation: Historical Roots and Key Components

Session Date Topic
1. 14.2.2023 Introduction
Course Overview
Course Requirements

Recommended reading:
*Urbinati, Nadia and Mark Warren, 2008. “The Concept of Representation in Contemporary Democratic Theory,” Annual Review of Political Science, 11: 387–412.
*Dario Castiglione and Mark Warren, “Rethinking Representation: Eight Theoretical Issues” (paper, Conference on Rethinking Democratic Representation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2006)

2. 21.2.2023 What is Representation?

Required reading:
*Russo, F., & Cotta, M. (2020). Political representation: concepts, theories and practices in historical perspective. In Research Handbook on Political Representation. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Recommended reading:
*Mansbridge, Jane (2011). Clarifying the Concept of Representation. American Political Science Review 105(3): 621‒30.
Manin, Bernard (1997). The Principles of Representative Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Introduction and Chapters 5).

3. 28.2.2023 Key Components of Political Representation: Delegate vs Trustee

Required reading:
*Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, 1787–8 [1987]. The Federalist Papers, Isaac Kramnick (ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Recommended reading:
*Rehfeld, Andrew (2009). Representation Rethought: On Trustees, Delegates, and Gyroscopes in the Study of Political Representation and Democracy. American Political Science Review 103(2): 214‒30.
*Bowler, S. (2017). Trustees, delegates, and responsiveness in comparative perspective. Comparative Political Studies, 50(6), 766-793.

4. 7.3.2023 Pitkin’s Four Views of Representation

Required reading:
Pitkin, Hanna F. (1967). The Concept of Representation. Berkeley: The University of California Press (Introduction and Chapter 7).

Recommended reading:
Pitkin, Hanna F. (1967). The Concept of Representation. Berkeley: The University of California Press (Chapter 8).
*Pitkin, H. F. (2004). Representation and democracy: uneasy alliance. Scandinavian Political Studies, 27(3), 335-342.

5. 14.3.2023 Authorization

Required reading:
*Mansbridge, Jane, 2009. “A Selection Model of Representation,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 17(4): 369–398.

Recommended reading:
*Saward, Michael, 2009. “Authorisation and Authenticity: Representation and the Unelected,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 17: 1–22.
*Guasti, Petra, Geissel, Brigite. (2021). Claims of Representation between Representation and Democratic Innovations. Frontiers in Political Science. XXX

6. 21.3.2023 Accountability

Required reading:
*Trounstine, Jessica. "Representation and accountability in cities." Annual Review of Political Science 13 (2010): 407-423.

Recommended reading:
*Mansbridge, Jane, 2004. “Representation Revisited: Introduction to the Case Against Electoral Accountability,” Democracy and Society, 2(I): 12–13.

Block II. Rethinking Representation

7. 28.3.2023 Mansbridge’s Four Forms of Representation

Required reading:
*Mansbridge, Jane, 2003. “Rethinking Representation,” American Political Science Review, 97(4): 515–28.

Recommended reading:
*Williams, Melissa. S. (2012). Beyond the Empirical-Normative Divide: The Democratic Theory of Jane Mansbridge. PS: Political Science & Politics, 45(4), 797-805.

8. 4.4.2023 Descriptive vs Substantive Representation

Required reading:
*Mansbridge, Jane, 1999. “Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent ‘Yes’,” The Journal of Politics, 61: 628–57.

Recommended reading:
*Phillips, Anne (1995). The Politics of Presence. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Chapter 1).
*Mansbridge, J. (2015). Should workers represent workers? Swiss Political Science Review, 21(2), 261-270.
*McDonald, Michael D., Mendes, Silvia M. and Ian Budge (2004). What Are Elections For? Conferring the Median Mandate. British Journal of Political Science 34(1): 1‒26.
*Dovi, Suzanne, 2002. “Preferable Descriptive Representatives: Or Will Just Any Woman, Black, or Latino Do?,” American Political Science Review, 96: 745–754.

9. 11.4.2023 Responsive vs Responsible

Required reading:
Pettit, Philip, 2010. “Representation, Responsive and Indicative,” Constellations, 17(3): 426–434.

Recommended reading:
Severs, E., 2010. “Representation As Claims-Making. Quid Responsiveness?” Representation, 46(4): 411–423.
Mair, Peter. 2009. Representative versus Responsible Government. Cologne: MplfG Working Paper 09/8.

Block III. Contemporary Advances

10. 18.4.2023 Representative Claim

Required reading:
Saward, Michael, 2006. "The representative claim." Contemporary political theory, 5(3): 297–318.

Recommended reading:
Guasti, Petra, and Brigitte Geissel. "Saward’s concept of the representative claim revisited: An empirical perspective." Politics and Governance 7.3 (2019): 98-111.
De Wilde, Pieter. "Representative claims analysis: theory meets method." Journal of European Public Policy 20.2 (2013): 278-294.
Celis, Karen, et al. "Constituting women's interests through representative claims." Politics & Gender 10.2 (2014): 149.

11. 25.4.2023 Critical Reception of the Constructivist Turn

Required reading:
Disch, Lisa, 2015. “The Constructivist Turn in Democratic Representation: A Normative Dead-End?,” Constellations, 22(4): 487–499.

Recommended reading:
Schaap, Andrew, Thompson, Simon, Disch, Lisa, Castiglione, Dario and Saward, Michael, 2012. “Critical exchange on Michael Saward’s The Representative Claim,” Contemporary Political Theory, 11(1): 109–127.
Nässtrom, Sofia, 2011. "Where is the representative turn going?" European journal of political theory, 10(4): 501–510.

12. 2.5.2023 Representation as Advocacy and Discourse

Required reading:
*Urbinati, Nadia, 2000. “Representation as Advocacy: A Study of Democratic Deliberation,” Political Theory, 28: 258–786.

Recommended reading:
*Dryzek, John and Simon Niemeyer, 2008. "Discursive Representation," American Political Science Review, 102(4): 481–493.
*Montanaro, L., 2012. “The Democratic Legitimacy of Self-appointed Representatives,” The Journal of Politics, 74(4): 1094–1107.

13. 9.5.2023 Final Session: Multidimensional Representation

Required reading:
*Wolkenstein, Fabio, and Christopher Wratil. "Multidimensional Representation." American Journal of Political Science (2020).

Recommended reading:
*Costa, Mia. "Ideology, Not Affect: What Americans Want from Political Representation." American Journal of Political Science (2020).