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Democratic Designs
International Intervention and Electoral Practices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Kimberley Coles



Examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina

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Praise for the Book

"Coles (Univ. of Redlands) offers an alternative view by employing ethnographic tools to tease out the bureaucratic techniques and processes of democratization implemented by the members of the international community in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, a region of former Yugoslavia, in the late 1990s."
---L. Stan, Concordia University, Choice

"Democracy projects have become a field of expertise and a tool of empire. Democratic Designs is a brilliant exploration of this paradoxical world."
---Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics, Director of International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University

"Perceptive anthropology meets international democracy promotion--the result is an arresting, original study of the controversial effort to build Bosnian democracy."
---Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

"Democratic Designs is a careful, detailed and thoughtful ethnography of electoral practices in one case of internationally imposed 'democracy.' Coles had access to the day to day practices of producing democratic elections, and recounts these in an accessible way. The account makes a number of important contributions to the growing anthropological literature on the sociality of bureaucracy--and internationalist bureaucracy in particular."
---Annelise Riles, Professor of Law and Anthropology at Cornell University and author and editor of several books, including The Network Inside Out