Representative Democracy in Flux: Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective...

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Martin Belov

Representative Democracy in Flux

Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective

Martin Belov

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Routledge
30 May 2025

Political structures: democracy; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; International human rights law; Constitutional & administrative law; Social law

Series: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law

This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features – institutional and imaginary – and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality. The collection explores the constitutional imaginaries of representation. It outlines the main factors influencing the failures of representative democracy, in an age of constitutional crisis and transition, being gradually deconstructed via tendencies toward authoritarianism and technocracy. Special attention is devoted to the impact of the politics of fear on representative democracy. The analysis shows the main challenges stemming from national, international, transnational, and supranational technocracy produced by the increased role of administration, agencies, and courts. It exposes representative democracy as a composite phenomenon stretched between reason and emotions and between the constitutional past, present, and future. The volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of constitutional law and politics, comparative constitutional law, administrative law, human rights law, and theory and philosophy of law.

Edited by: Martin Belov
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041005964
ISBN 10: 1041005962
Series: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 30 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Martin Belov is Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He is Vice Dean of the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Law.