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Branding is ubiquitous, yet its workings in politics are still untheorized. Drawing on the experiences of three cities on three continents, Eleonora Pasotti fills the gap by showing how cities suffering for decades from poor government, entrenched patronage, lack of development, and social conflict made a transition to a new form of governance: brand politics. Facilitated by the joint presence of direct elections, low party discipline, and high rates of municipal fiscal self-reliance, brand politics breaks a vicious cycle of skepticism and inertia and opens the window for a broad set of reforms. The theory of brand politics shows mayors emulating marketing mavericks: in commerce, consumers aspire to become different people by acquiring products; in politics, citizens support mayors' brands because they seek to become carriers of the same values. Voting and buying have thus become increasingly synonymous in citizens' primal search for a means of expressing their identities.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Comparative politics

• Full title: Political Branding in Cities
• Subtitle: The Decline of Machine Politics in Bogota, Naples, and Chicago
• Author: Eleonora Pasotti
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780521762052
• ISBN: 0521762057
• ID: 02042231
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 55 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. October 2009

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