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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 85–116.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Carlos A. Forment Duke University Press 2007 The Democratic Dribbler: Football Clubs, Neoliberal Globalization, and Buenos Aires’ Municipal Election of 2003...
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 593–604.
Published: 01 September 1993
... . Wells , A. 1972 . Picture Tube Imperialism ? New York: Orbis. The Spirit of Christmas: Television and Commodity Hunger in a Brazilian Election Caroline S. Tame The rise of world...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of the elections: ethnically targeted state repression, targeting of local ethnic proxies for national political figures, ethnic vigilantism, opportunistic criminal violence, and ethnic cleansing by Kalenjin ethnonationalists. The essay also argues that while there are good prospects for reconciliation, Kalenjin...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 95–105.
Published: 01 January 1994
... Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 PHOTO ESSAYS Hope Reclaimed: South African Elections May I994 Refuge Refused: Haitians, Borders and Democracy The Sun shall never set on so glorious a h um...
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Public Culture 10575845.
Published: 05 May 2023
...Danny Hoffman Abstract March 5, 2018, was the final rally day for the Sierra Leone People's Party prior to that country's national elections. The SLPP held its last day of public demonstrations in Bo, the country's second largest city and primary urban center in the Mende-dominant southeast...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 63–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
... and reproduction of black freedom imagery for state utility. The materials investigated reveal the value of black visibility to state interests at key moments in US race relations—namely, during slavery, enfranchisement, and national elections. 2016 black freedom struggle Jacqueline Kennedy President...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 237–263.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Setrag Manoukian Through a discussion of crowds and audio-vision in post-election Iran, the essay places the relationship between experience and politics at the center of current events in the country and analyzes the powerful but dispersed combination of crowds, images, sounds, voices, bodies...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 517–537.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to the popular will. Recent political events in Turkey present a dramatic contrast to this historically established antagonism between secularization and populist politics. In the spring of 2007 a series of mass demonstrations, rallied in the name of secularism and against the elected Islamist regime, were...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 83–88.
Published: 01 January 1992
... an openly promiscuous, excessive display of authority, the latter ushers tyranny in through the back door by appearing to suppress all desire for excess. Both situations are thus motivated by a logic of excess, but with a reversal of terms. Consider Indonesia’s national elections held once...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 59–84.
Published: 01 January 2007
... University Press. Powell, G. Bingham. 2000. Elections as instruments of democracy: Majoritarian and proportional visions. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Przeworski, Adam. 1991. Democracy and the market: Political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 389–405.
Published: 01 May 1996
... account of how rapidly growing turn-of-the- century cities were actually run. The carefully researched and artfully told stories of boodling, graft, and mismanagement recount how an apathetic public in city after city endures (and accedes to) its elected officials who routinely sacrifice...
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... In that tumultuous period of seemingly unfettered capitalist globalization, numerous constitutions were writ- ten and ratified; elections, not always fair and free, were held all over the world, including most recently in the long suffering Congo; people marched and dicta- tors were deposed; blueprints...
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 1996
... Diouf’s succession to Senegal’s first president, Leopold Skdar Senghor in 1981 and the difficult democratic transition and contested elections of 1983, at a highly unfavorable economic conjuncture. The state had been progressively disengaging...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 311–314.
Published: 01 March 2013
... corporations — entities, run like busi- nesses, governed by boards of directors that are either appointed or elected by property owners. Property owners, for example, elect the boards that run the busi- ness improvement districts that provide...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 99–121.
Published: 01 January 2022
... out as an “ultimate aim” for the election of both the chief executive of Hong Kong and “all the members of the Legislative Council” (Basic Law 1990: 23). These freedoms and the ideal of universal suffrage formed the city's political foundations. Impassioned attachments to them and to universal...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 513–538.
Published: 01 September 2020
.... As MaKosgei’s linking of trousers and elections implied, it’s not the elements that are key, but the relations between them, the particular form they take in relation to the ethical imagination. These arrangements do not necessarily have a single narrative or intellectual coherence, but rather a strategic...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 January 2006
... Sphere Merely a few days before his election as governor of Cali- fornia, on October 7, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was exposed, first in the Los Angeles Times and then throughout the media, nationally and internationally, as a brutal “groper” — at best a cad, at worst a sexual...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 453–463.
Published: 01 September 2020
... “everything is fine” approach nor the Tea Party – Trump “vengeance is mine” one commands real popular support. The Tea Party was only able to sweep to power during low- turnout midterm elections (which unfortunately gave them control of congressional redistricting and allowed them to entrench their own power...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 601–623.
Published: 01 September 2019
... while also making demands on the state for resources. With crime as a key campaign issue, and with bipartisan calls for its reduction, elected officials entrusted police to fulfill their political promises. Professionalization, moreover, conferred on police a monopoly of expertise in the particular...
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 41–64.
Published: 01 May 1990
... discourse might suggest.6 Rather cultural performances are essential to 44 Public Culture the constitution of legitimate power in contemporary democracies while re- maining in dialectical relation with the power so constituted. Elections, in which political...