Politics and Social Change; Orissa in 1959

Bailey, F.G.

University of California Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Politics and Social Change: Orissa in 1959

History

Asia

F. G. Bailey's political-anthropology text is reissued here with a postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in "exotic" and "developed" societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective, to win and hold followers while eroding the support of their opponents. Provocative and insightful. Stratagems and Spoils provides a conceptual toolkit for analyzing, in any culture, the rules that regulate political contests and that determine who will win and who will lose.

Strategems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Blackwell Pub.

F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in exotic” and developed” societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective, to win and hold followers while eroding the support of their opponents. Provocative and insightful, Stratagems and Spoils provides a conceptual toolkit for analyzing, in any culture, the rules that regulate political contests and determine who will win and who will lose.

Stratagems and spoils: A social anthropology of politics (Pavilion series)

Blackwell

Gifts and poisons: The politics of reputation; (Pavilion series, social anthropology)

Debate and compromise;: The politics of innovation, (Pavilion series: social anthropology)

Philosophy

The Tactical Uses of Passion: An Essay on Power, Reason, and Reality

The display of passion is an essential and widely used tool of rhetoric in Western culture, passion is opposed to reason , and reason gives us access to reality, in the exercise of government, politicians must transcend reality and address the nonreasoning side of human nature - feelings and sentiments. F. G. Bailey offers an inquiry into the complex interplay between emotions and intellect by examining the political use of rhetoric in small groups. Bailey first asks how displays of passion - anger, grief, hilarity - are interpreted and how they are used to exert power over people. The inquiry moves from primitive debates in which emotions are displayed involuntarily to the most sophisticated levels of debate where passion is employed deliberately and artfully, in the concluding part of the book, he uses the narratives of several arguments - parliamentary debates in India, a squabble in California city council, and the (fictional) meeting of a government committee in London - to infer some tunes for winning of losing arguments by the use passionate appeal. The paradox that emerges is that though reason is upheld as the superior mode of debate, it must ultimately be trumpred by emotion, It is from this paradox that the underlying theme of the book is drawn the capacity of reason to help us understand and therefore manage the world around us is limited indeed. The Tactical Uses of Passion will be invaluable to anthropologists, political scientists, students of public administration and of rhetoric, and anyone interested in the psychology of politics.

Cornell Univ Pr

Must all leaders have dirty hands? Must they all defy the moral and intellectual conventions of their own societies? Building on his earlier books, F. G. Bailey tackles these questions as he takes a hard look at political leadership and concludes that it is a difficult art which inevitably involves chicanery. "My intentions are modest," he writes: "to demonstrate that there is a dark side to leadership; to show that it is found everywhere and at all times; to encourage people to open the closet, whenever they get a chance, and find out what is really hidden in there; and, finally, perhaps even to urge compassion for those intrepid and (sad to say) indispensable people who allow their souls to be corrupted by the exercise of power." To illuminate the moral and social limits of leadership around the world, Bailey draws on examples from his own research in Orissa, Europe, and elsewhere, from his work on bureaucracies, and from political and military biographies, novels, and historical accounts. He carries his controversial argument into two domains: that of the leader and his mass following and that of the leader in his entourage. Dealing with the masses, he asserts, calls for both simplification of issues and falsification of capacities and attainments; the leader's world is a world of image-making and humbug. He explains how these techniques work and why they find an accepting (if not always gullible) audience. He demonstrates how manipulation and intimidation can control an entourage, and he shows how such reputedly decent leaders as Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, and even Gandhi used these strategems just as readily as did other, less reputable leaders. Recent American political scandals only serve to underline the timeliness of Bailey's subject and to support his theory of the persistence of "humbuggery." With its highly distinctive point of view, this book is sure to interest -- and may well outrage -- anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists, and other interested observers of the political scene. Book jacket.

Humbuggery and Manipulation: The Art of Leadership

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