Exemplarity in Global Politics

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. How is political change claimed and recognized? How is it attached to actors and transferred between them? This volume gives a new account of a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples. Bringing together thinkers from different disciplines and places, this book considers the networks of reception and emulation within which a political act can become an example, circulati