Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Corruption Elections Impoliteness Politeness Politics Print culture Violence Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite sociability and impolite, divisive, abusive and sometimes … smoke into the face of another, around which revolves a scene of carnivalesque feasting and drinking, with a hint of violence as a brick is thrown at the head of the candidates’ electoral agent. Indeed, violence was not uncommon at …
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