Exemplarity in Global Politics

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. How is political change claimed and recognized? How is it attached to responsible actors and transferred between them? This volume explores a mechanism that is celebrated in liberal discourse but is trickier in practice: the performance and uptake of examples. Bringing together thinkers from different national and disciplinary backgrounds, this book considers diverse cases and theories, focusing on how exemplary acts gain recognition and influence in varying contexts. It addresses the complex interplay of performance, reception and uptake, and provides a transdisciplinary analysis of how exemplarity shapes global politics.