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Overview

Michael Saward is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research in social sciences with a focus on several interconnected fields and topics. Their work spans areas such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, visual arts and performing arts, and cultural studies.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Political and Economic history of UK and US
  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Communism, Protests, Social Movements
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Data Analysis and Archiving

Michael Saward has published articles in peer-reviewed journals with outlets including:

  • Representation
  • International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Two recent papers attributed to them are:

  • Tate Liverpool's Democracies: curatorial methodologies for exploring democracy (2024), published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
  • 'A Passionate Clarity': David Beetham on Democracy, Legitimacy and the Democratic Audit (2023), published in Representation (authored by Christopher Lord)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrović, Shirin Rai, Christopher Lord, and Fernando Castaños, each contributing to multiple joint works or related projects.

Best Publications

  • The Representative Claim

    Michael Saward

  • Authorisation and Authenticity: Representation and the Unelected†

    Michael Saward

  • The Terms of Democracy

    Michael Saward

  • Enacting European Citizenship

    Engin F. Isin;Michael Saward

  • Framing the Good Citizen

    Jessica Pykett;Michael Saward;Anja Schaefer

  • Enacting Democracy

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  • Democratic Innovation: Deliberation, Representation and Association

    Michael Saward

  • Shape-shifting representation

    Michael Saward

  • Democratic Theorists and Party Scholars: Why They Don't Talk to Each Other, and Why They Should

    Ingrid van Biezen;Michael Saward

  • Democratic theory and indices of democratisation

    Michael Saward

  • Making representations: modes and strategies of political parties

    Michael Saward

  • Representation and democracy : revisions and possibilities

    Michael Saward

  • Governance and the transformation of political representation

    Michael Saward

  • Co-optive politics and state legitimacy

    Michael Saward

  • Agency, design and 'slow democracy'

    Michael Saward

  • Making democratic connections : political equality, deliberation and direct democracy

    Michael Saward

  • Less than meets the eye: Democratic legitimacy and deliberative theory

    Michael Saward

  • Dog Whistles and Democratic Mandates

    Robert E. Goodin;Michael Saward

  • Slow theory: taking time over transnational democratic representation

    Michael Saward

  • Must Democrats be environmentalists

    Michael Saward

  • In search of the hollow crown

    Michael Saward

  • Reconstructing Democracy: Current Thinking and New Directions

    Michael Saward

  • The wider canvas: representation and democracy in state and society

    Michael Saward

Frequent Co-Authors

Engin F. Isin
Engin F. Isin Queen Mary University of London
Robert E. Goodin
Robert E. Goodin Australian National University
Ingrid van Biezen
Ingrid van Biezen Leiden University

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