Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Introduction: A Protester's Tale; Part I: Discursive Causality; 1 Voting and Repressing; Part II: Russia Transformed; 2 "People Do Not Talk This Language"; 3 Spreading Political Identity in Russia; Part III: Discursive Consequences of the Colonial Encounter; 4 Colonialism and Enfranchisement in Europe; 5 British Settler Colonialism and Victory in 1945; 6 The Global South; References; Index
Summary
Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. Could people vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? With this in mind, Discourse, Dictators and Democrats presents a ground-breaking theory of what language use does to politics
