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Toward an Anthropology of Government: Democratic Transformations and Nation Building in Wales
William R. Schumann
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Description for Toward an Anthropology of Government: Democratic Transformations and Nation Building in Wales
Hardcover. In taking an ethnographic look at the creation of the National Assembly of Wales, this book explores the ambiguous outcomes of devolution. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; JPHC; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
The National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999, granting the people of Wales a parliament for the first time in nearly six centuries. The Assembly was intended to create a parliamentary culture of open, inclusive, and modern democracy that stood apart from the Houses of Parliament in London. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this informative book analyzes how power in Wales is legitimated and justified. William Schumann s intriguing argument makes the case that contradictory political practices exist which affirm elected officials as public representatives while also reproducing the subordinate status of Wales within the institutional hierarchies of the United ... Read more
The National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999, granting the people of Wales a parliament for the first time in nearly six centuries. The Assembly was intended to create a parliamentary culture of open, inclusive, and modern democracy that stood apart from the Houses of Parliament in London. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this informative book analyzes how power in Wales is legitimated and justified. William Schumann s intriguing argument makes the case that contradictory political practices exist which affirm elected officials as public representatives while also reproducing the subordinate status of Wales within the institutional hierarchies of the United ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230617452
SKU
V9780230617452
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About William R. Schumann
William R. Schumann is assistant professor of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh - Bradford.
Reviews for Toward an Anthropology of Government: Democratic Transformations and Nation Building in Wales
"Schumann has written a timely and important anthropological assessment of power in government and the roles which politicians, civil servants and other political leaders play in social and cultural change in a devolving United Kingdom. This is work at the cutting edge of political anthropology today." - Thomas M. Wilson, Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, SUNY