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The Decline Of The Lawyer-Politician, Nick Robinson
The Decline Of The Lawyer-Politician, Nick Robinson
Buffalo Law Review
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The Richardson Escuela: Law As Politics, Makau Wa Mutua
The Richardson Escuela: Law As Politics, Makau Wa Mutua
Journal Articles
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Bureaucratic Speech: Language Choice And Democratic Identity In The Taipei Bureaucracy, Anya Bernstein
Bureaucratic Speech: Language Choice And Democratic Identity In The Taipei Bureaucracy, Anya Bernstein
Journal Articles
This article illuminates the social nature of bureaucratic practice. Analyzing the everyday speech of bureaucrats in a polyglossic society reveals both their intensely interactive conduct and their recognition that the government they comprise is itself a participant in a social world of institutions and values. My ethnography shows how Taipei city government administrators mobilize ideologies associated with Taiwan’s two primary languages, and stereotypes associated with bureaucracy, to undermine both. Instead, they present themselves as a post-ethnonational and post-bureaucratic avant garde of their new democracy. In doing so, they draw on local values and tropes of legitimation, which place a premium …