{"product_id":"staging-politics-power-and-performance-in-asia-and-africa-9781845113674","title":"Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julia C. Strauss\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.","brand":"I. B. Tauris \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086487642263,"sku":"9781845113674","price":10620.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781845113674.webp?v=1767699861","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/staging-politics-power-and-performance-in-asia-and-africa-9781845113674","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}