The performance of politics
Subtitle: Obama's victory and the democratic struggle for power
By: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780199744466
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Performance art; Election
Description: This text 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Power, performance, and representation; title: Civil sphere and public drama; title: Becoming a collective representation; title: Spirit of the ground game; title: Heroes, binaries, and boundaries; title: Imagining heroes; title: Working the binaries; title: Walking the boundaries; title: Victory and defeat; title: Celebrity metaphor; title: Palin effect; title: Financial crisis.