Visions of Representation is a series of interviews edited by <a href="https://redirect.unisi.it/partner/university-of-exeter/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Andrew Schaap</a> (Director of the series) with scholars in democratic theory as part of the Horizon-funded Redirect project. In these interviews world-leading experts in democratic theory discuss their ideas about the shifting dynamics in practices of representation in contemporary political life. The interviews introduce the state of the art of contemporary academic debates about the nature of representation, including diagnoses of the disconnect between representatives and represented in Western democracies and proposals for reconnection through democratic innovations.<br /><br />REDIRECT is a project funded by the EU’s Horizon-Europe programme. Call: HORIZON-CL2-DEMOCRACY-01-Democracy in flux. Grant Number: 101095142
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Visions of Representation is a series of interviews edited by <a href="https://redirect.unisi.it/partner/university-of-exeter/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Andrew Schaap</a> (Director of the series) with scholars in democratic theory as part of the Horizon-funded Redirect project. In these interviews world-leading experts in democratic theory discuss their ideas about the shifting dynamics in practices of representation in contemporary political life. The interviews introduce the state of the art of contemporary academic debates about the nature of representation, including diagnoses of the disconnect between representatives and represented in Western democracies and proposals for reconnection through democratic innovations.<br /><br />REDIRECT is a project funded by the EU’s Horizon-Europe programme. Call: HORIZON-CL2-DEMOCRACY-01-Democracy in flux. Grant Number: 101095142
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January 29, 2026
Episode 10: Alfio Mastropaolo on Representation & Invention of Modern Politics
In this interview, recorded online on 29 February 2024, Professor Alfio Mastropaolo discusses the chapter on “Representation and the Invention of Modern Politics” from his book <a href="https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815383488" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Waging War by Other Means: Historical Sociology of Democratic Government</a>.
January 29, 2026
Episode 9: Philippe van Parijs - Public Intellectuals & Representative Democracy
In this interview, recorded at the Bourse in Brussels on 6 December 2025, Prof Philippe van Parijs reflects on the role of the public intellectual within representative democracy, including his own contribution to public debates about and political campaigns for an unconditional basic income. Visions of Representation is a series of interviews with scholars in democratic theory recorded by Andrew Schaap as part of the EU Horizon-funded project Redirect (101095142).
January 29, 2026
Episode 8: Michael Saward on Shape-Shifting Representation
In this interview, recorded at Friends’ House in London on 24 October 2025, Prof Michael Saward (Warwick) discusses his article ’Shape-Shifting Representation.’ American Political Science Review. 2014;108(4):723-736
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