Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… and impolite, divisive, abusive and sometimes violent and highly unsociable behaviour. 1 They were moments when elite and popular notions and expectations of sociability interacted and sometimes collided. Elections channelled … ‘sociability’ was a disputed point. Its defenders called it ‘hospitality’ and saw it as a customary obligation for the elite to provide lavish entertainment for supporters. Many voters expected to be supplied with alcohol, at the very … on his electoral rival had been ‘obtruded on the public’. 8 Much of the other material did not pull its punches and the elite that bought such works must often have found the content disconcerting for the vehemence of its critiques of the …
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