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Staging democracy : political performance in Ukraine, Russia, and beyond / Jessica Pisano

Pisano, Jessica [Verfasser]

Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, 2023

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xv, 233 pages).

NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies

Cornell scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-5017-6408-0 ; 978-1-5017-6407-3 ; 978-1-50-176406-6

 

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Focusing on the experiences of people in Russia and Ukraine, this book shows how some national leaders' seeming popularity rests on local economic compacts. Jessica Pisano draws on long-term research in rural communities and company towns, analysing how local political and business leaders, seeking favor from incumbent politicians, used salaries, benefits, and public infrastructure to pressure citizens to participate in command performances. Pisano looks at elections whose outcome was known in advance, protests for hire, and smaller mises en scne to explain why people participate, what differs from spectacle in totalitarian societies, how political theatre exists in both authoritarian and democratic systems, and how such performances reshape understandings of the role of politics.