sanctioned performances in a variety of venues, and to the band’s work with the East German music industry, came many performances at unlicensed concerts and the release of self-produced audio-cassettes into the then-burgeoning tape-trading circuit, dubbed
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Two Failures of Left Internationalism
Political Mimesis at French University Counter-Summits, 2010–2011
Eli Thorkelson
counter-summits, which sought to appropriate the gravitas of international summits like the European Council or the G20, and to acquire political recognition by imitating the official performance of discursive authority. The Brussels counter-summit, for
’s organizational gambit to wrest local political control from the mainstream parties. This article analyzes the FN’s performance in these elections from the standpoint of political demand and supply. First, it elaborates the social, economic, and partisan
Investing in Early Crisis Relief or Reelection?
Comparing German Party Responses to the Euro Crisis
Alexandra Hennessy
literatures on economic voting and party performance ratings by highlighting the role of party leaders as strategic crisis managers. I offer a microlevel account of how parties shape the range of policy alternatives for the future, in light of their past
Jonathan Bach, Heather L. Dichter, Kirkland Alexander Fulk, Alexander Wochnik, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and Carol Hager
inconsistencies. Michael Krüger, Christian Becker, and Stefan Nielsen, German Sports, Doping, and Politics: A History of Performance Enhancement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) Reviewed by Heather L. Dichter, Human Performance and Health Education, Western
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A Hybrid Form of a Populist Right Movement
Ina Schmidt
Revolution (Michigan 1977), 11. 4 Ibid., 10. 5 Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (New York 1994), 4. 6 Charles Tilly, Contentious Performances (Cambridge 2008), 5. 7 Tarrow (see note 5), 2. 8 Mario Diani, “The
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Puhdys, Politics, and Popularity
John Littlejohn
at the Republic’s youth in an effort to make them hostile to the principles of Socialism.” 5 It was also in 1958 that the government implemented the quota for music on the airwaves and in live performances. The quota allowed a maximum of 40 percent
“The Fourth Reich Is Here”
An Exploration of Populist Depictions of the European Union as a German Plot to Take Over Europe
Julian Pänke
and overbearingly present today.” 26 Thus, we need to examine how Germany actually performed in the series of crises that hit Europe over the last decade. 27 Hellmann has provided an analysis of “German role performance” during three of them: the
Radical Right-Wing Populists in Parliament
Examining the Alternative for Germany in European Context
Lars Rensmann
mobilization in Germany like elsewhere in Europe rather than negatively affecting electoral performance. Third, for decades Germany provided the prime European example of failing radical-right populist parties due to organizational problems, lack of
Disruptive Technology
Social Media from Modiano to Zola and Proust
Elizabeth Emery
lies in its apparent simplicity. Where Houellebecq’s press stunts are so over the top as to be identifiable as such, Modiano’s performance of “literarity” is so subtle it does not register as performance. The discarded cartable and cardboard box in