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Making Constituencies is about questions that are both timeless and very recent. Disch's concern for who comes first, the representative or the represented, is at least as old as the French Revolution. As she states towards the end of the book, 1789 is a watershed for the history of representative democracy and for theorists reflecting on the possibilities and limits of representation as a tool of modern politics... In arguing that competence ought not to be the measure against which to evaluate the health of contemporary democratic politics, Disch convincingly deflates common concerns for voters' manipulation and the elitist and pessimistic attitudes that come with them. * The Review of Politics *

"""Making Constituencies is about questions that are both timeless and very recent. Disch’s concern for who comes first, the representative or the represented, is at least as old as the French Revolution. As she states towards the end of the book, 1789 is a watershed for the history of representative democracy and for theorists reflecting on the possibilities and limits of representation as a tool of modern politics... In arguing that competence ought not to be the measure against which to evaluate the health of contemporary democratic politics, Disch convincingly deflates common concerns for voters’ manipulation and the elitist and pessimistic attitudes that come with them."" * The Review of Politics *"

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Lisa Jane Disch is professor of political science at the University of Michigan. She has published four books. Most recently, she coedited The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory and The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation.

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