...Ideas, Projects, and Electoral Realities ...

... This chapter traces the Panthers’ engagement with electoral politics in the mid-1970s. It looks at Bobby Seale’s mayoral campaign and Elaine Brown’s run for Oakland City Council on the Democratic Party ticket and how the BPP mobilized resources to register voters. It traces Huey Newton’s decline...

...Electoral Dystopias ...

... This chapter explains how dons’ authority connects to Jamaica’s system of electoral politics. Political authority relies on the recognition of a ruler’s rightness, both by the ruled and by other rulers. The “horizontal” recognition conferred by elected politicians contributes to dons’ positions...

... elections electoral democracy political brokerage civil society ...

... This chapter follows Generation 98’s journey through the 2004 national and presidential elections, as activists sought to keep the goals of Reform alive by renewing their ties to each other and to “the People.” As Indonesia’s electoral democracy began to be dominated by established political...

... This chapter discusses terror, hope, and changing identities as they are reshaped by the changing physical, economic, and political geography of the coastal Carolinas, and as they organized and reorganized electoral struggles in the early years of the civil rights movements. swamps...

... This chapter explores the state of Mexico’s electoral democracy circa 2004. Looking at the role of the media, which reveled in scandals, and at the widespread political corruption, the chapter concludes that the two are intertwined. Andrés Manuel López Obrador Victor Trujillo Televisa...

... In the wake of Napoleon’s 1808 invasion of Iberia, Spaniards fought for independence at home while struggling to hold the empire together. That complex and conflictive process led to the 1812 Cádiz Constitution, a document offering citizenship and electoral participations to Hispanic...

... over the differences between the two Indias, which is central to the politics of nationalism, electoral politics, and globalization. Instead of dissolving the social hierarchies, the essay argues, the concept of sarvajan tends to accommodate them. nationalism Dalit social equality democracy...