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How Far the Elected Representatives and Officials like the Democracy?
How Far the Elected Representatives and Officials like the Democracy?
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC18 Political Sociology (host committee)
Language: French and English
Session Type: Oral
How do elected representatives relate to democracy and citizen participation? How do they perceive their roles as representatives, their status and their political flexibilities? How do they understand the role of citizens in democracy and the skills associated with them? How do these issues delimit different profiles of elected officials and different political paths?
The conclusions of the work on democracy and participation converge to underline their practical resistances, but their political or intellectual relationship to participation has been little analysed. Is there a technocratic temptation among the chosen ones that would go against the deliberative imperative? Do elected officials feed into a certain “hatred of democracy” (Rancière 2005) in their relationship to participation?
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