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Changing Parties: An Anthropology of British Political Party Conferences
Florence Faucher-King
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Description for Changing Parties: An Anthropology of British Political Party Conferences
Hardcover. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Party conferences are central to the life of political parties. They contribute to setting policy agendas, developing policy options, legitimizing policy choices, building party cohesion, motivating activists and publicizing party activities to the wider public. An analysis of their evolution in Britain helps us understand the ways in which political parties change. This book combines anthropological methods with political science to analyze changing power relationships, party organizations and political culture in British political parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, The Greens.
Party conferences are central to the life of political parties. They contribute to setting policy agendas, developing policy options, legitimizing policy choices, building party cohesion, motivating activists and publicizing party activities to the wider public. An analysis of their evolution in Britain helps us understand the ways in which political parties change. This book combines anthropological methods with political science to analyze changing power relationships, party organizations and political culture in British political parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, The Greens.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
315
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403904621
SKU
V9781403904621
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Ref
99-15
About Florence Faucher-King
FLORENCE FAUCHER-KING is a Professor at the CEVIPOF in Sciences Po, Paris, France, where she teaches and researches. Her interests include political parties, new social movements and green politics. She has previously taught at Stirling University and she is the author of Les Habits Verts de la Politique (1999).
Reviews for Changing Parties: An Anthropology of British Political Party Conferences
' Changing parties is a welcome in-depth study of the transformation of the British party conferences...This is a thoroughly-researched book which provides a welcome insight into the transformation of these annual seaside gatherings and the changes within British political parties in the 1990s; it is a welcome addition to the study of political parties and more generally to British political ... Read more