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The End of Representative Politics?

  • Written by: The Conversation

The following notes on the future of democratic representation were inspired by Simon Tormey’s The end of representative politics (2015), launched at a Gleebooks event organised by the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN), May 15th 2015.

imageCamping in Barcelona, 21 May 2011Julien Lagarde

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