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In this week\u2019s episode, Lee speaks with Lisa Disch about the state of America\u2019s representative democracy. Disch is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on contemporary continental political thought, especially feminist theory, political ecology, and theories of democracy in both the United States and France. She is the author of Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy (The University of Chicago Press, 2021), The Tyranny of the Two Party System (Columbia University Press, 2002) and Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 1994).\n\nHow responsive are legislators to their constituents\u2019 concerns? What role do legislators play in shaping their constituents\u2019 views? And is there a crisis of representation in American politics? These are some of the questions Lisa and Lee ask in this week\u2019s episode.