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Democratic designs : international intervention and electoral practices in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This work is an ethnography of the practices of international intervention and democracy building.
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2007
Case studies
xvii, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780472099856, 9780472069859, 047209985X, 0472069853
85822562
Introduction
Blueprints and builders
Internationality
Arrival stories
Hyper-Bosnia : international privilege, state-building, and differentiation
Doing nothing : the practices of passivity
Democratic governance
Electoral thick description
Election day
Electoral actants : translating voter will into political authority
Embodied transparency : the eyes and ears of the international community
Transparent forms and bureaucratic mechanisms of watching
Circuits of power : jet-setters, foreign policy, and democratic works