Democratic designs; international intervention and electoral practices in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina.9780472069859 Democratic designs; international intervention and electoral practices in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Coles, Kimberley. U. of Michigan Press 2007 297 pages $26.95 Paperback JN2203 Coles (anthropology, U. of Redlands) examines democratic evolution in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a cultural and political practice and as a form of social knowledge. More specifically, she ethnographically eth·nog·ra·phy n. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures. eth·nog investigates the production of social knowledge in the technical and bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu tools of ballots, electoral rolls, voter preparation guides, and international electoral supervision. She argues that international intervention and apolitical a·po·lit·i·cal adj. 1. Having no interest in or association with politics. 2. Having no political relevance or importance: claimed that the President's upcoming trip was purely apolitical. technologies have served to establish and normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. particular practices and epistemologies of democracy. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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