The Romance of Democracy
Subtitle: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780520235281
Subjects: American studies; Ethnography; Political structures: democracy; Working class; Political Science; Democracy; Politics / Current Events; Public opinion; Politics/International Relations; Mexico; Political activity; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Social Science / Anthropology / General; CoyoacÃ¢an; Attitudes; Coyoacan; Coyoacâan
First sentence: The Romance of Democracy is an ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation in the world's most populous city: a detailed, bottom-up exploration of the lives of residents of a poor working-class neighborhood of the Mexican capital; and an examination of how, when, and why they seek to change their political worlds, and how, when, and why they participate in or eschew the politics of politics.