01849nam a22002895a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000280007604300120010408200220011610000390013824501050017725000180028226000560030030000340035649000580039050000240044850400310047252007470050365000390125065000540128965100100134365300220135394200080137599900170138395201590140020160327145311.0160327s2000    nyub   frb    001 0 eng d  a9780801486913  aEG-ScBUEbengcEG-ScBUE  af-sg---04a320.9663bSCH2221 aSchaffer, Frederic Charles.93950710aDemocracy in translation :bunderstanding politics in an unfamiliar culture /cFrederic C. Schaffer.  a1st printing.  aIthca ;aLondon :bCornell University Press,c2000.  axvii, 168 p. :bmap ;c23 cm.0 aWilder House series in politics, history, and culture  aIndex : p. 163-168.  aBibliography : p. 147-161.  a"Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine grass-roots understandings of democratic institutions and political concepts, Schaffer conducted fieldwork in Senegal, a mostly Islamic and agrarian country with a long history of electoral politics. Schaffer discovered that ideas of demokaraasi held by Wolof-speakers often reflect concerns about collective security. Many Senegalese see voting as a matter less of choosing leaders than of reinforcing community ties that may be called upon in times of crisis." 7aDemocracy zSenegal.2BUEsh939510 7aDemocracy vCross-cultural studies.2BUEsh939512  2BUEsh  bBUSBOLcMarch2016  2ddc  c21511d21483  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc1STd2016-03-27ePurchaseg220.00h22690l1m34o320.9663 SCHp000032160r2025-07-15 00:00:00s2016-10-09v275.00yBB