Articles by Dario Castiglione

December 22, 2025

🎈 Who elected Mark Rutte? Representation as political engagement

Dario Castiglione

In his introductory piece for this series, Luca Verzichelli asked whether we can re-establish a connection between political institutions and citizens. Dario Castiglione suggests we can. But first, we must rethink democratic representation as a process of mutual engagement; then re-imagine its political practices and institutions

Dario Castiglione

Reader/Associate Professor in Political Theory and Director of the Centre for Political Thought, University of Exeter

Dario's main areas of research are democratic theory and the history of early modern political philosophy.

His current research interests are representation and political legitimacy, and the way in which political and conceptual discourses translate across linguistic and cultural divides.

He is a member of the Horizon REDIRECT research project.

From Maastricht to Brexit: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU
with Richard Bellamy
ECPR Press, 2019

Creating Political Presence – The New Politics of Democratic Representation
Edited with Johannes Pollak
University of Chicago Press, 2019

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