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New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day offers a unique perspective on political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present day by putting the concept of representation center stage. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people as it was shaped by constructions of self-representation and representative claims. The contributors to this volume - specialists in ancient, medieval, early-modern and modern history - move away from reductionist associations of political representation with formal aspects of modern, democratic, electoral, and parliamentarian politics. Instead, they contend that the construction of political representation involves a set of discourses, practices, and mechanisms that, although they have been applied and appropriated in various ways in a range of historical contexts, has stood the test of time.
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Harm Kaal, Ph.D. (2008), VU University Amsterdam, is associate professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has recently published on popular politics, the scientization of the political, and the history of electoral culture and acts as co-editor-in-chief of
the Journal of Applied History. Daniëlle Slootjes, Ph.D. (2004), Chapel Hill, is associate professor of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published extensively on late antique Roman administration, geography, the history of early Christianity and crowd behavior in the period of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. Contributors: Olivier Hekster, Maaike van Berkel, Bert Roest, Peter Rietbergen, Dries Raeymaekers, Sebastiaan Derks, Marij Leenders, Joris Gijsenbergh, Vincent van de Griend, Wim van Meurs, Olga Morozova, Adriejan van Veen.
