Performative Democracy

Description: A new analysis of non-violent political change, drawing on the experiences of Poland and South Africa.

Review Quotes:

"A first-rate and firsthand account of the slow but inexorable transformation of Poland."
--Christopher Hitchens, Slate

"This beautifully-realized original book explores the borderlands governing the zone between that which is permitted and that which is not to illuminate how democracy and dignity can develop out of harsh and humiliating authoritarian conditions. Focusing on transitions to political regimes and transformations to gender, Performative Democracy is an instance of what it analyzes--for it is that rare intervention that itself can help generate the change it most admires."