Campaigning, here and elsewhere
Electoral mobilisation and ordinary political practices
by Layla BAAMARA, Camille FLODERER, Marine POIRIER (eds.)
Summary
This collective work sheds ethnographic light on the logics of electoral mobilisation from Nicaragua to Turkey, via France and the United States. By taking a 'bottom-up' approach and focusing on 'campaigning', this series reveals political exchanges and transactions, modes of intermediation, labelling and role-taking strategies, as well as transformations and adjustments to the repertoires of action mobilised by the players. The book takes a comparative look at electoral campaigns, bringing together studies that go beyond the cultural 'areas' or 'specificities' in which they sometimes remain compartmentalised. Based on observations made in geographically, politically and sociologically diverse areas, this book aims to give an account of both the long-term nature and the situational logics of the political and social processes of electoral mobilisation.
Authors
The authors are political scientists, Layla Baamara and Camille Floderer (Mesopolhis) and Marine Poirier (Researcher at IREMAM).
With contributions from Layla Baamara, Nicolas Bué, Maya Collombon, Hélène Combes, Hervé Do Alto, Camille Floderer, Marie-Ange Grégory, Rémi Lefebvre, Elise Massicard, Marine Poirier and Julien Talpin.
Publication date
17/10/2016
Contents
Introduction: Conjugating the campaign in the plural
Layla BAAMARA, Camille FLODERER, Marine POIRIER
PART ONE: MANAGING SUPPORTERS AND STREAMLINING CAMPAIGNING PRACTICES
Pink on the front. Taking Sandinista hegemony to the streets Maya COLLOMBON
Reinventing and rationalising door-to-door canvassing in the 2014 municipal elections. The effects of beliefs and resistance in activist culture Rémi LEFEBVRE
When the campaign comes to an end. The militant significance of an end-of-campaign meeting in Mexico Hélène COMBES
PART TWO: PARTIES AND ACTIVISTS TESTED BY CAMPAIGNS
What do we see of a campaigning party? Unveiling the production of political relations during a local election campaign in Turkey Élise MASSICARD
Campaigning to work. An electoral campaign through the prism of intra-party competition in Bolivia Hervé DO ALTO
A campaign "apart, but for the party". The case of an FFS candidate in the 2012 legislative elections in Alger Layla BAAMARA
PART THREE: MOBILISING BEYOND THE ACTIVISTS. INTERMEDIATION AND MODES OF POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT
Creating voters. The "campaigning" of urban candidates in cantonal elections Marie-Ange GREGORY
Neighbourhood leaders on the campaign trail. Mobilising and demobilising residents of a working-class neighbourhood in Costa Rica Camille FLODERER
New "political machines"? How are community organisations investing in referendum campaigns in California? Julien TALPIN
Afterword: What do you do when you're campaigning? Nicolas BUÉ
Reviews and speeches
Electoral law blogRomain Rambaud, 8 February 2016
"These are studies of the evolution of campaigning methods over time. The campaign beyond the election: the effect of the campaign has a strong influence on election results [...].
Cross-country analyses show the importance of the electoral process in the affirmation of democracies, but also the circulation of techniques and methods. There is also an interest in elections in rather authoritarian regimes, which shows the interest of an election beyond the simple impact on the democratic quality of the election".
French Journal of Political Science, 2017, vol. 67, no. 6, "Proceedings", Babak Taghavi, p. 1261.
The geopolitical reviewdiploweb.com, 2016, " Geopolitical books 2016"Pierre Verluise.
"Based on observations made in geographically, politically and sociologically diverse areas, this book aims to give an account of both the long-term nature and the situational logic of the political and social processes of electoral mobilisation.
" Revisiting elections from the south ", Paris, 18 September 2017, Sciences Po/CERI round table chaired by Sandrine Perrot, with the support of the PIAF, the seminar "Afrique: citoyenneté, violence et politique", the research group "Travailleurs de l'élection: du local au transnational", the journal African politics and the Association of African Political Researchers.
Baamara L., " The difficult departure from protest routines in the Algerian mobilisations of 2011 ", Actes de la recherche en sciences socialesn°211-212, 2016, p. 109-125.
Baamara L., " "A party, it participates!" A look back at the repositioning of the Algerian Socialist Forces Front (2011-2012) ", Mediterranean Confluences, n°98, 2016, p. 159-174.