The Grammar of Politics and Performance
Year: 2014
Type: book
Abstract: Metaphors of the stage are commonplace when it comes to democracy. We talk of political ‘actors’ and ‘audiences’, ‘backstage’ politics and potential leaders ‘waiting in the wings’. But with few exceptions, democracy scholars treat such talk as mere metaphor. They do not think that democracy really is a performance, with all the dramatic norms and paraphernalia that go with that. Indeed, in an era in which highly rationalist models of democracy dominate, many scholars would recoil from a dramatic account, linking performance and drama with insincerity, strategising, manipulation and ‘spin’.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Author: Parkinson, John
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2774471735