The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

by JeffreyC.Alexander (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $11.84

  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