Abstract
Our aim was not to provide a defi nitive solution to the contemporary crisis of democracy. The articles collected in this volume point from diff erent perspectives to the fact that the contemporary crisis of democracy has its origin in a failure of established forms of citizen's representation.
However, their authors do not plead for a revival of direct democracy but - building on the insights of the representative turn - instead examine a possibility of opening democracy's new dimensions that, while entrusting citizens with political power, avoid perils of populism and plebiscitarianism.