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Genre/Form: | Case studies Cases |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Coles, Kimberley. Democratic designs. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608402086 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kimberley Coles |
ISBN: | 9780472099856 047209985X 9780472069859 0472069853 |
OCLC Number: | 85822562 |
Description: | xvii, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Blueprints and builders -- Internationality -- Arrival stories -- Hyper-Bosnia : international privilege, state-building, and differentiation -- Doing nothing : the practices of passivity -- Democratic governance -- Electoral thick description -- Election day -- Electoral actants : translating voter will into political authority -- Embodied transparency : the eyes and ears of the international community -- Transparent forms and bureaucratic mechanisms of watching -- Circuits of power : jet-setters, foreign policy, and democratic works. |
Responsibility: | Kimberley Coles. |
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Democratic Designs is a careful, detailed and thoughtful ethnography of electoral practices in one case of internationally imposed 'democracy.' Coles had access to the day-to-day practices of producing democratic elections, and recounts these in an accessible way. The account makes a number of important contributions to the growing anthropological literature on the sociality of bureaucracy - and internationalist bureaucracy in particular. - Annelise Riles, Professor of Law and Anthropology at Cornell University and author and editor of several books, including The Network Inside Out Read more...
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