Universität Wien

210147 SE M11: Forschungspraktikum (2024S)

What is political representation? (engl.)

12.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
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max. 35 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 19.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 09.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 16.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 23.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 30.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 07.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 14.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 21.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 28.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 04.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
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  • Dienstag 18.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock
  • Dienstag 25.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1 (S1), NIG 2. Stock

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

It is uncontroversial that the quality of democracy is closely bound up with the quality of political representation. But what exactly is political representation? This theory-focused course aims to examine this central question, equipping students with a good sense of the major debates and controversies in the field. The course divides into three parts. The first part (“from pre-democratic to democratic representation”) looks at how the meaning of the term "political representation" changed between the early modern period and the nineteenth century. Along the way, students will discover what major political thinkers like Thomas Hobbes had to say about representation, as well as learn why the act of electing representatives was originally viewed as being “aristocratic,” rather than democratic, in character. The second part of the course (“realist and constructivist representation”) sheds light on how later observers, especially in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, sought to reconceptualise political representation for the age of mass democracy. The course focuses here on what would turn out to be major point of disagreement among scholars: whether democratic representation is an essentially “constructed” relationship that arises from discursive interactions in the public sphere – or whether it exists in some “real” sense, as in the view that increasing the number of women or ethnic minorities in parliament automatically means that women or ethnic minorities receive better political representation. Building on these debates, the third and final part of the course (“new frontiers in research on representation”) explores the most recent theoretical advances in representation scholarship. Chief amongst the issues that will be discussed are the implications of intersectionality theory for how we think about the representation of women or ethnic minorities, new ways in which social movement activists frame their claims to represent others, and institutional design strategies for how to connect elected representatives and the represented.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Formative coursework and assessment:
• Seminar presence and participation (students must not miss more than one session): 10% of the grade
• Three reflection papers on the readings: 12% of the grade. (2-3 short questions on the readings on one topic with an explaining paragraph, to be posted at noon the day prior to the class on Moodle)
• Think piece on the text/theory/problem that students want to write their final paper on (2000-2500 words): 8% of the grade
• Presentation of final paper draft. (Draft paper should at least have a research question, state of the art section, research design section): 15% of the grade
• Discussion of a colleague’s final paper draft: 15% of the grade
• Final paper (6000-7000 words): 40% of the grade. Deadline: 31 August, 2024
Please note that written assignments might be checked for plagiarism using the Turnitin software.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

See above.

Prüfungsstoff

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Literatur

Indicative reading:

David Runciman, “Hobbes’s theory of representation: anti-democratic or proto-democratic?” In: Political Representation, eds. Ian Shapiro, Susan C. Stokes, Elisabeth Jean Wood and Alexander S. Kirshner, pp. 15-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Concept of Representation. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of Californa Press, 1967.

Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Michael Saward, The Representative Claim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Nadia Urbinati, Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Jane Mansbridge, “Recursive Representation.” In: Creating Political Presence, eds. Dario Castiglione and Johannes Pollak. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Monica Brito Vieira, “Representing Silence in Politics.” American Political Science Review 114 (2020), pp. 976-88.

Lisa Jane Disch, Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Samuel Hayat, “Unrepresentative Claims: Speaking for Oneself in a Social Movement.” American Political Science Review 116 (2022), pp. 1038-50.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mi 31.07.2024 12:06