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This title argues that we can remake and renew our ideas of democracy. It builds, defends, and illustrates the democratic design framework - a new tool for politicians, reformers, and observers facing the great challenges of democracy around the world today.

The book argues that we can remake and renew our ideas of democracy. It builds, defends, and illustrates the democratic design framework -- a new tool for politicians, reformers, and observers facing the great challenges of democracy around the world today.

This title argues that we can remake and renew our ideas of democracy. It builds, defends, and illustrates the democratic design framework - a new tool for politicians, reformers, and observers facing the great challenges of democracy around the world today.

Written by an originator of the claims-based approach, this book responds to critical questions about the practice and legitimacy of representation in today's politics. It also explores critical themes such as performances of representation, becoming representative, and how we can generate political insights by exploring artistic representation.

The Representative Claim is set to transform our core assumptions about what representation is and can be. At a time when political representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book provides a timely and critical corrective to conventional wisdom on the present and potential future of representative democracy.

'The Representative Claim' is set to transform our core assumptions about what representation is and can be. At a time when political representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book provides a critical corrective to conventional wisdom on the present and potential future of representative democracy.

This is an original look at the political future of democracy, exploring the latest ideas aimed at renewing popular power. Leading European, American and Australian democratic theorists explore a range of contemporary themes.

How can we theorize about democracy? We can identify the major topics that form the focus of democratic theorists (and others traversing the field), such as democracy's meaning and value. This article focuses on the methodological lenses through which the topics have been and can be viewed. Different lenses bring into focus different phenomena, questions, and problems of democracy. It is argued that the lenses that bring conventional democratic theory approaches into view can provide an unnecessarily narrow and restrictive perspective. Donning different methodological lenses can introduce alternative perspectives, such as renewed attention to value pluralism and the "everyday." The article sketches four "circles" that capture different potential types of and sources for theoretical work, some of them radically unconventional. It concludes by discussing the specific example of how methods and assumptions of design theory can prompt promising new approaches to theorizing about democracy.