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Editors' introduction: Rethinking the future of representative democracy Sonia Alonso, John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel -- 1. Representative democracy and its critics Nadia Urbinati -- 2. Representative democracy and the populist temptation Klaus von Beyme -- 3. The wider canvas: representation and democracy in state and society Michael Saward -- 4. Performance and deficits of present-day representation Bernhard Wessels -- 5. Do parliaments have a future? David Beetham -- 6. Engendering representative democracy Drude Dahlerup -- 7. Representative democracy and the multinational demos Sonia Alonso -- 8. Diagnosing and designing democracy in Europe Philippe Schmitter -- 9. Monitory democracy? John Keane -- 10. Representing nature Robyn Eckersley -- 11. Democracy and representation beyond the nation state Michael Zu**rn and Gregor Walter-Drop.