Jeffrey C Alexander

The Performance of Politics

Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP/The Bibliographical Society of London
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780199926435
• ISBN-10: 0199926433
• Artikelnr.: 35330471

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Civil Sphere and The Meanings of Social Life.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
Power, Performance and Representation
Chapter 1 Civil Sphere and Public Drama
Chapter 2 Becoming a Collective Representation
Chapter 3 Spirit of the Ground Game
Heroes, Binaries and Boundaries
Chapter 4 Imagining Heroes
Chapter 5 Working the Binaries
Chapter 6 Walking the Boundaries
Victory and Defeat
Chapter 7 Celebrity Metaphor
Chapter 8 Palin Effect
Chapter 9 Financial Crisis
Epilogue
Note on Concept and Method
Appendix
Endnotes
Index