Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. A former Head of Politics at the Open University, he has published widely on democratic theory and practice, including The Representative Claim (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Making Representations (ECPR Press and Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020). He is co-editor of Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (Oxford University Press, 2020).