What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ranging from Kenya to Peru,The State Were In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.

Nicholas J. Long is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author ofBeing Malay in Indonesia: Histories Hopes and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago (NUS, NIAS, and University of Hawaii Press, 2013) and co-editor with Henrietta L. Moore ofSociality: New Directions (Berghahn, 2012) and The Social Life of Achievement (Berghahn, 2013).

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Introduction: When Democracy Goes WrongJoanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, and Henrietta L. Moore

Chapter 1. After (?) Democracy: Time, Space and Affect in Peruvian Political ImaginariesDavid Nugent

Chapter 2. Democracy and the Ethical ImaginationHenrietta L. Moore

Chapter 3. Why Indonesians Turn Against DemocracyNicholas J. Long

Chapter 4. Opposition and Group Formation: Authoritarianism Yesterday and TodayJohn Borneman

Chapter 5. Rejecting or Remaking Democratic Practices? Experiences during Times of Crisis in ItalyJan-Jonathan Bock

Chapter 6. The People and Political Opposition in Post-democracy: Reflections on the Hollowing of Democracy in Greece and EuropeGiorgos Katsambekis

Chapter 7. Debt Society Consolidated? Post-democratic Subjectivity and its DiscontentsYannis Stavrakakis

Chapter 8. Politics After Democracy: Experiments in HorizontalityMarianne Maeckelbergh

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