The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

by Jeffrey C. Alexander

Book Overview

Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography, and presidential elections are no exception. But do differences in class, gender, race, and religion really determine the vote?

The Performance of Politics develops a new way of looking at democratic struggles for big-time power and it explains what happened, and why, during the 2008 Presidential campaign in the United States. Through a series of simple but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199926433
• ISBN13: 9780199926435
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"