Elections as Popular Culture in Asia

by Chua

Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies and policies appeal to the self-interest of the electorate. In reality elections, whether in first world democracies, or in the various governmental systems present in Asia, can more realistically be seen as cultural events in which candidates' campaigns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415425700
• ISBN13: 9780415425704
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"