1st Edition

District Leaders A Political Ethnography

By Rachel Sady Copyright 1990
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    219 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book highlights the roles played by a selection of people who make up the lowest layer of elected party office holders and are closest to voters. It analyses three themes that emerge from ethnographic data: political process participation, the role of parties; and parapolitical factionalism.

    The field and the players; role perceptions and performances; strategies of influence; winning and losing; factionlism; summation and surmise