The performance of politics: obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power

The Performance of Politics develops a new way of looking at democratic struggles for big time power by explaining and analysing the 2008 Presidential campaign in the United States. Through a series of simple but telling concepts about meaning and performance in public life, Jeffrey Alexander argues that images, emotion, and performance are the central features of the battle for power INDICE: Preface; Prologue; 1.: Power, Performance and Representation; 1. Civil Sphere and Public Drama; 2. Becoming a Collective Representation; 3. Spirit of the Ground Game; 2.: Heroes, Binaries and Boundaries; 1. Imagining Heroes; 5. Working the Binaries; 6. Walking the Boundaries; 7. Celebrity Metaphor; 3.: Victory and Defeat; 7. Celebrity Metaphor; 8. Palin Effect; 9. Financial Crisis; Epilogue; Note on Concept and Method; Appendix; Endnotes; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-974446-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés