Understanding the Present through the Past? Quentin Skinner and Pierre Rosanvallon on the Crisis of Political Representation
(2007) Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory — Vol. 11, n° 1, p. 45-60 (2007)
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Weymans, Wim 
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- How can the study of unfamiliar ideas from the past help us to under- stand the present? I focus on one particular problem we encounter in society today: the so-called "crisis of political representation" which has haunted Western democracies since the 1980s. The question is whether historians can help us to examine and even resolve this crisis. I focus on two eminent historians who have sought to answer this question, albeit in different ways, namely Q. Skinner and P. Rosanvallon.
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Weymans, W. (2007). Understanding the Present through the Past? Quentin Skinner and Pierre Rosanvallon on the Crisis of Political Representation. Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, 11(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.7227/r.11.1.4 (Original work published 2007)