ISBN:
9781501764080
,
9781501764073
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 233 pages).
Series Statement:
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Political culture
;
Political culture
;
Political participation Economic aspects
;
Political participation Economic aspects
;
Public relations and politics
;
Public relations and politics
;
Politics and Government
;
Politics & government
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7591/cornell/9781501764066.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501764066.001.0001
