1. Introduction: The End of Representative Politics, Lisa Disch; Section One: The Constructivist Turn: Anglo-American and Continental Intellectual Genealogies; 2. Rethinking Representation: Eight Theoretical Issues and a Postscript, Dario Castiglione and Mark E. Warren; 3. Machiavelli against the Venice Myth: The 16th Century Dialogue on the Nature of Political Representation, Jan Biba; 4. Power without Representation is Blind, Representations without Power are Empty, Bernard Flynn; 5. Two Regimes of the Symbolic: Radical Democracy Between Romanticism and Structuralism, Warren Breckman; 6. Political Representation: The View From France, Raf Geenens; 7. Democracy and Representation, Claude Lefort (translated by Greg Conti); Section Two: The Constructivist Turn: Normative Challenges; 8. Representation as Proposition: Democratic Representation after the Constructivist Turn, Samuel Hayat; 9. Don Alejandro’s Fantasy: On Representation and Radical Democracy, Oliver Marchart; 10. Pinning Down Representation, Lasse Thomassen; 11. Representative Constructivism’s Conundrum, Nadia Urbinati; Section Three: Constructivist Representation: Critique and Reproduction of Power; 12. Exploring the Semantics of Constructivist Representation, Alessandro Mulieri; 13. The Improper Politics of Representation, Mark Devenney; 14. The Constructivist Paradox: Contemporary Protest Movements and (their) Representation, Mathijs van de Sande.