Description: The concern of this book is to see whether the phenomenological effervescence of politics is still possible to retrace the nucleolus of the political in its archetypical form.
Review Quotes: This is an ambitious book that engages fundamental issues in the study of politics. Bartolini's conception of political action as a search for compliance lays the basis for an analytical framework that is original, comprehensive, ingenious, and profound.--Gary Marks, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill and Robert Schuman Fellow, EUI, Florence