Commons and Lords - A Short Anthropology of Parliament

Based on anthropological fieldwork between 1998 and 2000 in the House of Lorda and 2011 and 2013 in the House of Commons and constituencies, this explains how relationships within the Houses are different from their surface appearance.

List of contents

Parliamentary Curiosities

Party discipline: The Whips have no clothes

Women in Parliament: Performing patriarchy

Parliamentary scrutiny: Reading the runes

Seductive gilded village and the addictive city of torture

 

Notes

About the author

Emma Crewe is a principal investigator in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. She is the author of several books on politics and the parliamentary system.

Summary

Based on years of anthropological fieldwork in the House of Lords and and the House of Commons, Crewe explains how relationships within the two Houses are utterly different from their surface appearances. This book looks beneath the surface and uncovers Parliament's surprises and secrets.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Crewe, Crewe Emma
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9781910376072
• ISBN: 978-1-910376-07-2
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Haus Curiosities; Haus Curiosities
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education