Emily Salamanca
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Salamanca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Salamanca |
| SIGNATURE | SALAMANCA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University Princeton, NJ USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7566-2947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reimagining Political Legitimacy
Upon election, new consuls were expected to give a public address (contio) to legitimize their rule, traditionally by referencing the ancestor masks (imagines) of their gens, which stood as signifiers of their family’s honor and civic commitment. However, for new men (novi homines) lacking prestigious ancestors, such avenues for legitimization were unavailable. Instead, new men had to re-imagine ancestral legitimacy in light of their own qualific…
Reconstructing Religion-contra-Democracy in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
To Tocqueville, the ideal relationship between religion and democracy is one of tension, not partnership. Although Tocqueville is often taken as a staunch admirer of America’s religion, this article shows how Tocqueville, through his delicate handling of both the positive and negative tendencies of Jacksonian Protestantism, not only anticipates common criticisms of American religious culture today but also offers theorists the conceptual tools to…
Pruning of the People
Athenian ostracism has long captured democratic imaginations because it seems to present clear evidence of a people (demos) routinely asserting collective power over tyrannical elites. In recent times, ostracism has been particularly alluring to militant democrats, who see the institution as an ancient precursor to modern militant democratic mechanisms such as social media bans, impeachment measures, and lustration procedures, which serve to prot…
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Pruning of the People
Athenian ostracism has long captured democratic imaginations because it seems to present clear evidence of a people (demos) routinely asserting collective power over tyrannical elites. In recent times, ostracism has been particularly alluring to militant democrats, who see the institution as an ancient precursor to modern militant democratic mechanisms such as social media bans, impeachment measures, and lustration procedures, which serve to prot…
Reconstructing Religion-contra-Democracy in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
To Tocqueville, the ideal relationship between religion and democracy is one of tension, not partnership. Although Tocqueville is often taken as a staunch admirer of America’s religion, this article shows how Tocqueville, through his delicate handling of both the positive and negative tendencies of Jacksonian Protestantism, not only anticipates common criticisms of American religious culture today but also offers theorists the conceptual tools to…
Reimagining Political Legitimacy
Upon election, new consuls were expected to give a public address (contio) to legitimize their rule, traditionally by referencing the ancestor masks (imagines) of their gens, which stood as signifiers of their family’s honor and civic commitment. However, for new men (novi homines) lacking prestigious ancestors, such avenues for legitimization were unavailable. Instead, new men had to re-imagine ancestral legitimacy in light of their own qualific…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cicero (1 work)