By bringing together three different academic disciplines – anthropology, political science and history – and covering a variety of different parliamentary assemblies, both in Europe and in the United States, this book aims to offer a fresh approach to parliamentary studies.
The authors assess the importance of ritual and symbolic communication in different parliamentary settings. The underlying question that each practitioner and scholar addresses is: Do parliamentary rituals really matter? Some of the contributors argue that legislative procedure is more telling of the role and reputation that a parliament has in a given society than its rituals and ceremonies.
Others stress the relevance of these ritual expressions for conveying political sense and meaning to the public.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
210 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Peter Lang GmbH |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2006-03-21 |
| ISBN |
9783631519936 |
